How did the universe form from nothingness?

Question

Before the universe existed there was nothingness, no space, no time, no matter to be formed or expanded?

How can something form from complete nothingness? How can time and space be formed from nothing?



all this is created from a higher creator? maybe there was no before the universe, it was always here with no beginning? Maybe none of this is real?

What do you think?

Someone said big bang, big bang is a theory of space expanding.

Space can't exist in nothingness though? So how can it expand?

Answer 1

big bang

Answer 2

If it was created from a higher creator, then that creator existed, so there wasn't nothingness. So you can't say that there is nothing and a creator at the same time, because this is a conflict.


I'll give you a clue to the nothingness question:

1 + 3 - 2 + 6 - 5 + 4 - 7 = 0

Here is an example of having something, which actually equals out to being nothing.

Answer 3

The Bible often makes understated statements. So it is in the creation account. The opening sentence in the Bible goes like this, "In the beginning God created the Universe and the earth." No details, understated as usual. Oh, and the earth was surrounded by a deep, deep ocean, so deep it was called an abyss. Again no detail. Understated again. And it says it was dark. Pitch black dark. No telling how much time the earth existed like that. Then God said "Light be." and light was. As you go through the creation information, such as is stated, you get the impression of a long process. How long is unknown. All we know is that it all took place in six days, but God is not saying 24 hour days -- He didn't create the sun until the fourth day. In true understated fashion God neglects to tell us how long those days were. I think we would view those days as six periods of unspecified time that only God knows.

There is no product we use and see that doesn't have a creator or manufacturer. That is a given. We just stumble when it comes to trees, babies and stuff we can't explain. We know that every effect has a cause. We accept this with known man made articles, but we stumble when it comes to articles that grow naturally, like trees. plants, flowers, animals, birds. man. We look at a salt shaker and know it is man made. We look at an orange and get stupid. Every effect has a cause. What is so hard about that?

Answer 4

There are actually two types of nothing.
There is an eternal nothing and a finite nothing.
The universe or anything that goes on in it is an incident,an incident has a beginning and an end.
A slug,an elephant or you has a beginning and an end.
your beginning is,sort of obvious,it came from a potential.
Your end is the end of an incident it will never happen again,it is eternal.
The universe had a beginning and it will end and never happen again,it will enter a state of eternal nothing.
Before the universe began,there was nothing,but there had to be a potential and the potential had to be finite. If it was not finite it could not have changed.
Some way a space-time pulse was initiated a fraction of a second after time zero.
This space-time pulse matured and produced us and the universe that we experience to-day.

Answer 5

Considering how big the known universe is now, that must have been a whole lot of nothing. That part of the theory really doesn't seem to add up does it. I think that's why another theory exists that the universe expands and contracts..It blows up in a big bang and expands for a gazillion years and then gravity slows the growth and then eventually sucks everything back together until the whole damn thing collapses into a tiny speck of...pretty much everything. But everything can't exist in a tiny atomic sized speck so it all blows up again.
They say the universe is still expanding so I don't think it's going to be a big concern for a long long time.

Answer 6

You have asked an excellent question which none of our scientists can properly answer. My personal opinion is that the Universe has "always" existed and agrees with the "Steady State" theory. The great strength of this theory is that it helps explain there always was and always will be a Universe, unlike the Big Bang theory which cannot explain what existed before the so-called big bang !

Answer 7

the realm of the universe is way beyond our imagination . what we can do is make intelligent guesses from whatever little evidence we have. enter big bang theory . the universe long long ago was concentrated into a tiny miniscule super dense ball of matter which was almost nothingness but not exactly nothing then due to some imbalance akin to a supernova explosion but much larger in magnitude the ball exploded - the big bang.

now the universe is still expanding as a consequence of this explosion and will continue to do so for as long as time exists.

Answer 8

It is beyond your mental capability you puny human. Just kidding. That is a great question, but I don't think it can be answered with complete accuracy. Maybe the universe is a small space between some creature's armpit and we are just that small. I mean that is ridiculous but no one could prove me wrong, although I don't believe that. Maybe it's just hard for us to understand that time didn't start. It may just be a beyond our understanding. We are just another product of nature. What seems amazing to us my just only be amazing to us. So, maybe there never was just nothingness, maybe there was. Your question is valid but pretty much impossible to answer.

Answer 9

That's why people belive in God, once I started thinking about things like this.. it really enhanced my spirituality, trust me.

I've read places that God created the human mental capacity to a certain extent.. and we're just not meant to know that much.

It is scary to think right? If you think about it, there has to be a beggining for EVERYTHING even nothingness.. but don't think about it to hard...

I asked a similar question too, we should chat about this stuff sometime

Answer 10

It wasn't nothingness, or empty vacuum. Nothing existed before the big bang!

Answer 11

This is now understood as zero point energy, the lowest point of energy that a quantum mechanical physical system may posses and the energy of the ground state of the system. It is associated with vacuum energy, which is the free energy found in a vacuum.

This energy from the vacuum, is known as the Casimir effect. It exists when virtual particles come into existence.