Did reality start with the big bang?

Question

Did the bang push out equaly in all directions so that say, our universe went to the east and other universes went north, south and west. is the bang expanding as a spherical ballon and is reality confined into that portal of space being opened as a result of the bang

SAM: You know sam you might be right

Roo: Thats my point, at what stage did reality actually start and are we in fact real.
Its a big question but without asking the right questions we will never get the right answer.

Teenibra: are you saying that all matter flew into one direction and thst reality did not exist before big bang then when did reality start? or are we in fact not real?

Singlecel: Ok then define reality in your terms.. May be reality is everything a human being can make contact with and touch or see and hear. We may see things that no human being will ever reach out to. We know somthings out there but just can't get to it or ever will.in our life time so where are the boundries of reality?

getbobs: Are you sure about that? could reality at that time have been the single state that existed at the time a few seconds before the bang. Whether you agree with the bang or not somthing happened to cnange the state and cause the explosion and continual evolving state of the cosmos. This suggests that reality was existing but for whom or what?

Jerry, Gettobs said the same thing but what about the single state befor the big bang and the actual cause of the change to the state that resulted in the big bang. if this change to the single state actualy occured then reality must have begun befor the big bang be it that a few seconds befor.

Hi, Kevin, I am a lateral thinker so this is my defination.

Reality is a concept of intelligence that helps that intelligence come to terms and connect physicaly and mentaly with the order of things at any given time.
Reality is an understanding of where we live and the going on's of what has happened, is happening and what might possibly happen, it is being able to see, touch and hear and above all change and act upon the circumstances that surround us
Reality defines the boudries of where we live whether you consider the earth or the whole cosmos as your home, But, reality is not a state of mind or place in the cosmos that may never be reached by the time the last member of the human race dies. Reality is truth of objective, (I keep an open mind on religion) as to whether a devine entity is responsible for life.

Answer 1

Define "reality"

Answer 2

If you define "reality" as the physical universe, time, space, and all things and actions that occur in it, then yes.

Metaphysical realities may exist outside the big bang, but these are the province of religion and mysticism, not physics.

Your word "start" implies a time line. In the big bang cosmology, ther is *no* time before the big bang. Thus, as you stated the question, the answer must be yes if you are positing the big bang as the working assumption. As an if-than logical statement, your question would be:
"If there was a Big Bang, then reality started with it." Again, if reality is defined as the physical universe and everything that happens in it, then this is a true statement.

Done.

Answer 3

The universe is a pocket of ordered energy that randomly waved as vacuum fluctuations into existence within a sufficiently small volume of spacetime that an event horizon pinched it into its own causally contiguous region.

Once the energy was isolated from its parent spacetime, it had to find a way to relax that didn't involve pre-existing space for dispersal. Instead, the energy changed state, with part of it becoming particles of matter, motion of matter, and radiation, while the rest became the potential energy by which forces communicated among the particles.

We evolved to interpret this potential energy as space, as separation. Our perceptions of space and spatial arrangements might be just psychological and adaptive conveniences, peculiar to our primate way of thinking (see the branch, there, grab it and swing to next branch, up there, then across to next tree, that way...).

The big bang wasn't the detonation of any explosive. It was just the relaxation of the primordial energy that randomly collected in a parent spacetime and, being too dense to remain there, fell into a causally isolated pocket where it created a new spacetime.

Why does energy randomly fluctuate in vacuum? Energy IS existence. Existence exists by tautology, simply because it has no alternative.

Answer 4

"You can't just expect people to believe that there was absolutely nothing and then.... BANG."

The idea is that there was no 'before' - Time and continuity were also brought into existence by the event. So it's not like there was nothing and then the big bang - there was just the big bang at T+0. Like all scientific conclusions, no-one can be 100% sure of what really happened, but all evidence points to the current conclusion.

The truth is not dependent on whether or not people can be expected to believe it.

Answer 5

Prior to the Big Bang (a concept that few here understand at all and for which they should refrain from commenting before they make such ignorant comments), there was no space or time.

So for all intents and purposes, reality did start at that point. I'm not sure how you define reality, much less the absence of it. But as a general point of philosophical meandering I think I can say the answer to your question is yes.

So someone gave me a thumb's down. How very unsurprising. There are no lack of idiots here. There is nothing I have written above that does not accurately reflect the current state of knowledge regarding the origin of this Universe.

Of course, what I wrote is completely antithetical to the fundamentalist Christian dogma, so when one of these idiot's heads butts up against reality, they have to shout it down. Idiots.

Answer 6

You people really need to keep up with the news. It has recently been discovered that there are many flaws associated with the big bang theory and that theory has now been de-bunked.

But what do you expect from a place where everyone gets thier scientific information from a bunch of kids?

Answer 7

I think Yes. Reality started off with Big bang. But fanciful ideas make the world round (not literally). Teenibra,as the Aborigines think, we are all in a `Dreamworld`. If so, what are the entities whom are dreaming?

Answer 8

My reality started with my birth. Reality is a tricky thing cause it all has to do with what you believe to be reality.

The big bang that created our solarsystem didn't create the universe I believe. And that big bang created the sun formost... earth is just a side product of it.

Answer 9

The Big Bang started the space-time continuum in our universe. Space and time did not exist until the Big Bang. The so-called expansion of the universe is actually expansion of space.
There are no other universes that were born with the Big Bang. Just ours.

Answer 10

Perhaps there was no 'before' the big bang. Lots of impossible things happened, so why not that one?

Answer 11

Well apartly they can only proved what happened up to a fraction of a second past the big bang (i think it might have been 1000th of a second)

So they is no prove as of yet to say if the earth was created by a big bang or if it was, that it wasnt the work of god.

The answer is out there...so the real question is are we going to find it?