What was before the "Big Bang?"?

Answer 1

Given that mankinds " intelligence " is in it's infancy, EG: We can't begin to imagine how vast the universe is despite science' increasing ability to " shrink " the unknown to a level we can understand, at this time It's highly doubtful we as a species have the intellectual ability to know what was.. An educated guess, a theory, a hypothesis are about all we're dealing with right now.. So, here's another, at the instant of our death, ALL shall be revealed.. Personally, I think we're all in for one hell of a big surprise when that time comes !!

Answer 2

What was "before" depends on what you think caused the big bang. Here are two possible causes.

1) The Big Bang resulted from the rapid expansion of all matter in the Universe that was previously compressed to the size of a grapefruit or smaller. Where did this come from - a good question and probably not answerable at this stage in our knowledge of the universe. Perhaps a random fluctuation in an underlying quantum foam (hence "before" was nothingnesss or at least nothing we can make sense of) or the collapse of an earlier universe (although current observations suggest that a big crunch is very unlikely and our universe will expand forever).

2) The Big Bang is the result of the collision of two multi-dimensional branes. Our universe exists on the surface of such a brane, there are potentially an infinite number of branes. From time to time these collide and the resulting energy creates a new universe. If this is true then "before" was another universe which was destroyed in the collision.

Answer 3

Big Bang theorist would say 'I dont know.'Perhaps that theory indicated a primordial mass as small as a golf ball was preexisting before the Big Bang and with time may have had a catalist we which made it just go with a big pooff. and out of that came out a very big galaxy whchich dropped the material for making a small mass called the earth which in turn dropped another mass which made another mass called moon.
How do we know how the Universe was born we were not there .
So all science can do is play with dice and which is the better logical theory than that is what would be understood. One theory there is just as good as another.
Best source of Information is 1st chapter of genesis.

Answer 4

Basically, the big bang stated that time started from a huge explosion from a mass which started time itself. It is still unknown what came before the big bang however. It has been widely accepted that before the big bang, everything was in a space singularity similar to what would happen during the big crunch. however, it is not widely accepted everywhere. However, it sounds sane to me.

Answer 5

The trick is, there was no before. Time is one of the dimensions, it came into being with the Big Bang.

Answer 6

This is one of the big questions that disproves the big bang.

The other one is related in the fact that:
If matter can't be made or destroyed then, who kept track of all matter that existed before the big bang?

If the big bang is correct, then matter can be destroyed.

Answer 7

Nothing time and space are the same thing. There was nothing before the big bang according to theory.
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Answer 8

Nobody knows, everyone has there own theories though. I think that the point of singularity that exploded in the big bang came from a black hole in another universe.

Answer 9

I'm gonna answer this question short...the universe before the big bang was extremely compact, dense, and hot...that's why it exploded!!!

Answer 10

First was the little bang, then medium bang and then the big bang.