if there is a beginning to time, then what before that, and before that, and so on.
if there is a beginning to space, then what was outside that and so forth.
there can't be a beginning, because there is always something preceding that right?
2007-02-17 17:38:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Not necessarily. If you accept the Big Bang theory for creation of universe, what was there before it? Nothing. Space and time are the properties of the universe. And what happens after some time? Who knows? May be a Big Crunch, a collapse into nothingness again. It may again start expanding. So, the pendulum keeps swinging from one side to another.
2007-02-17 17:48:11 · answer #1 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, with no easy answer, but I will try. To "begin" with, if you go by the theory of the "big bang", you have to realize that something caused it. What could have caused it. I go with God as being the source, as He did "Create the Heavens and the Earth". Prior to this, the Lord observed that there was a "void". We, as humans, have yet to understand this, and, truthfully, I think this should be left unto God. The Bible DOES state that the Lord is a mystery, BUT all things shall be revealed. We may not know what was there before the beginning, etc., but it is best to help your mind rest once you realize that God has this under control, and will let us all know.
2007-02-18 01:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by enbsayshello 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a pre-Big Bang era, there would've been a perpetual state of nothingness. What interrupted this state of nothingness to bring forth the Big Bang? What is the "cause" behind the Big Bang?
Therein lies the problem with the Big Bang theory. The Big Bang's primordial ingredients have to have an origin too. From "nothingness" came everything? The universe should not "be", yet is. The universe is a paradox. More people need to ponder this "pre-Big Bang" era more often.
2007-02-18 06:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The space and time that we are currently existing in could have had a beginning, but it probably arose out of eternity, which is beyond space and time and has no beginning or end.
Before our time and outside our space, there may be other dimensions, each with its own timeline and universe.
After our time and space has run its course, we may move on to another one, or to eternity, which contains everything that has ever existed in space and time, and everything that could potentially exist.
2007-02-18 02:04:29 · answer #4 · answered by Leslie J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not built to comprehend such a concept. We are like ants, focused on what we can handle. We always see a beginning and an end. We aren't even able to understand anything outside of that. We just don't have the brain circuitry.
2007-02-18 01:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by CB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahhh ole wise child....now you understand the power of God and where man and his cheap science falls off.
they "claim" a big bang but have no answer for what was there prior to the "bang", what caused the bang or even how the matter formed to create the bang....yet you will hear them all stand up and preach they know it all.
Bible flat up says in the first book, Genesis......"God spread out his hands and created the heavens and earth....not until the 2nd day was the sun created and the stars..."
2007-02-18 01:43:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋