At some point such and such billions of years ago all matter in the universe was condensed into a very small lump of extremely dense material. Then, BOOM. The universe is born. Thats all fine and dandy, but I have to ask: where did this little lump of ultra dense matter come from? Also, when I picture this lump of matter in my head, I see this clump of matter floating in space, but some proponents of the theory claim the big bang created space and time. So, what is this clump of matter floating in? Nothing? How can nothing contain something? Likewise, what is the universe expanding into? If I am to believe that the big bang created an ever enlargening bubble of space inside of nothing? Again, nothing containing something? At the edge of this event there is nothing? Does this really make sense to any of you? BOOMING VOICE: In the beginning, there was nothing......except a clump of ultra dense matter, floating like a turd in the nothingness. Then the turd exploded...........
2007-02-10 18:31:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Time and space theoretically didn't exist before the big bang, therefore neither did matter, since matter represents energy, and energy is a manifestation of time and space, or rather altering wave crests in space-time. The latest theory I've heard is quantum fluctuations caused the big bang, creating something out of nothing. Empty space is filled with vacuum energy that is constantly created and annhilated, as observed in brownian motion and the casimir effect. But those forms of energy quickly cancel themselves out before anything can detect them, like our universe will do before it effects anything outside our universe.
2007-02-10 19:50:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says atheists should know all about science? You? How do you know what atheists should know all about? Nobody knows what happened before the big bang, and so far there are only speculations. But there is a mountain of evidence that the big bang happened. The big bang did not create rocks, fire, and stars, but the big bang had to happen before there could be a universe for those things to appear in. Uncaused events are happening all over the universe all the time on an unimaginable scale. They are called "quantum fluctuations." Do you imagine that every time scientists don't know something you can pop up and say "Goddidit?" Well, of course you can always surrender to ignorance in that way. But scientists don't surrender, they look for answers.
2016-05-25 09:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some strong evidences.
First, if the universe is expanding then some time in the past everything must have been closer, second Galaxies are believed to be formed by the left over radiations of the big bang in the form of cosmic background. The 3rd is the theory of singularity in general relativity as it describes that There must have been a singularity ( Big Bang) at some point in the past for every possible way we know to describe the Universe.
2007-02-10 19:53:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All this is something we do not know as yet - perhaps we will survive on this little ball of dirt to find this answer sometime in the future.
My thinking on this subject is much like Richard's above. Perhaps there is some as yet unknown force in our universe that will eventually slow the expansion and pull all matter back to a point. From this collapse to a point another Big Bang will occur and another universe is created.
2007-02-10 23:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by 63vette 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe started as a single space-time pulse some time about 10 to the minus 95 from time zero.
Before that there was a finite potential that some way turned into this space-time pulse that resulted in the universe and us.
Turds took some time to evolve!
2007-02-10 23:49:26 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the big bang created time, then "before" doesn't make any sense. The whole discussion concerning the beginning of space and time is outside any imaginative ability I have.
The quantum fluctuation answer is the best one I have heard, but I still can't get a feeling for what it means.
2007-02-10 19:55:51 · answer #6 · answered by smartprimate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My thinking is that the infinitely small lump came from a previous universe that had contracted. My theory is that this is a cyclical event. A big bang, followed eventually by a big cruch which will lead to another big bang,.... and so on, and on.........
2007-02-10 20:34:01 · answer #7 · answered by Richard C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the big bang created time, space and matter, then nothing existed before. Nothing exists before it is created.
2007-02-10 19:57:56 · answer #8 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the meta-universe, which is the wider physical universe, all of which was created by God.
2007-02-10 20:53:58 · answer #9 · answered by darth_maul_8065 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋