Who created the matter that ignited in the Big Bang? Where did space originate that contains the matter?

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Was the matter "just there"? Was space just there? Why stars and planets versus one or the other?

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Why aren't the anti-god people responding in detail to my question?

salian2 (below) - speaks as a politian. Saying a lot of words without directly and distinctly supplying ansers to my simply stated question(s). Just explaining how he understands it all without explaining it at all.

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I'M WAITING. HELLO. ANYONE GOING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION??? You accuse believers of blindly following nonsense. Here is your chance to shine light on our darkness.

Answer 1

Before the Big Bang there was no matter or time.Despite its name, nothing goes bang in the Big Bang theory. The cataclysm it proposes wasn't anything like a bomb exploding into preexisting space, since all space was contained inside the infant universe. Rather, the Big Bang refers to the event when the immense energy in the infant universe drove it to expand.


Now, let me explain one of the latest theories on what caused the big bang. A parallel universe moving along a hidden dimension smacked into ours. The collision heated our universe, creating a sea of quarks, electrons, protons, photons, and other subatomic particles. It also imparted microscopic ripples, like ocean waves crashing on a shore.

These ripples generated tiny fluctuations in temperature and density, the seeds from which all cosmic architecture—from stars to gargantuan clusters of galaxies to galactic super clusters—ultimately arose.

The universe continues to expand even today, and the latest research shows that this expansion is accelerating. This means that the underlying space is expanding, not that objects such as galaxies, planets, and people are expanding. The space which we occupy is expanding slightly, but gravity and molecular attraction are much stronger on a local scale than the current expansion of the universe, and thus each person, planet, star, galaxy, and even cluster of galaxies remains whole. Far away galaxies, however, are receding from us. We do not yet know if the universe is finite or infinite, or if the expansion will continue to accelerate or not.

The Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago from the disk of matter spinning around the Sun, which formed about half a billion years earlier from swirling clouds of gas in space in the outer arms of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The matter forming the earth was a combination of dust, ice, rock, and gas. As the Earth grew larger, the individual pieces of matter were initially crushed by gravity, then melted under the intense heat and pressure inside what grew to a planet-sized body. Heavier elements such as iron sank to the center, while the lightest constituents such as water and nitrogen rose to the surface. At around 4.1 billion years ago, the surface of the molten earth cooled down enough to become solid land.

Answer 2

Although many might think that a deity is logical, it is not. Both sides require an amount of acceptance as fact. We know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed according to the laws of physics. This makes the theory of a deity creating the universe, or even its components, illogical. The fact that your only conclusion is a deity because of there being no origin of the matter is rather perplexing. Using the same argument as my first point, we can also conclude that the idea of a deity's existence in general because of the chronological order of the universe. Why would there be 1 sentient being before any solid matter? If a deity can be forever, why can just plain matter not be? The only difference is that a deity is less acceptable when we look at Occam's Razor. The theory of the Big Bang requires the least assumptions, so it is the most logical. I honestly have no idea how the connection of deity to universe happened in logic or why the idea hasn't been abandoned completely.

Answer 3

The Big Bang is not the reason for the creation of the universe. The universe has always been here. The Big Bang is the reason our solar system exists now. Before the Big Bang created our solar system there was another star in it's place that supernova'd. That is it got so large it colapsed in on its self creating a Big Bang. All the pieces of this ex-sun/star came together as another sun, planets, and an asteroid belt, as well as many moons. All these objects were brought together by a very measurable force known as gravity. That is my definition of the Big Bang Theory. Most scientists still say Big Bang Theory. Are you getting the word 'theory', that means it is what scientists think happen. You are right in saying there isn't any concrete proof that this is totally 100% true-which is everything in science.

But where is your concrete proof that God or Jesus or Santa or the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny or Satan or Demons or Vampires or Creatures from the Black Lagoon or Werewolves or Witches/Warlocks or Freddy Kruger or Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers(killer not actor) or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or smart politicians-no proof that any exist-you will undoubtedly point to your Bible for your proof, but some of us need more than that, we need tests on our environment around us, not just making stuff as you go along.

Answer 4

The bible tells us that the Earth was void without form, so i'm assuming that all of the matter was just floating around. God doesn't give us too much detail because he only gives us enough details that we can handle. God spoke the universe into existence so HE was what ignited that "big bang" if there was one. he created the planets and the stars for many reasons, but I'd like to think he also thought it was beautiful and thought that we may enjoy it. besides, I have a hard time believing that the universe was just the cause of some kind of explosion. its too beautiful and too perfect for it not to be the work of a Supreme Being, know what I mean???

Answer 5

We really don't know what, if anything, existed before the Big Bang. And there is nothing to suggest a "who" to be the cause.

Matter could be just there. Check out Hawking Radiation and virtual particles. We have some scenarios for how the Big Bang happened, but no real evidence yet.

Stars happened because of hydrogen coming together because of gravity. They produced heavier elements that were ejected into the universe. Those elements came together into planets, again because of gravity.

Answer 6

I do believe a very strange team of scientists at MIT (judging by the picture anyway) is trying to tackle that one. What caused it to be that way. You seem interested in how science has come to have posited these theories, why not check it out for real with your local library or college. I think that you will find it less threatening to what you believe in if you understand it.

Answer 7

I dont believe that 'god' created this earth, and i dont believe that we just 'happened' to be. I think believe in god is giving hope... because people are afraid of the unknow. We dont know who made us or why we are here... honestly why are we?

To gain material wealth and then what?

no one knows... everyone is looking for an answer.


So this is a question w/ no correct answer...

Answer 8

heres the dumbed down version of m-theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring_theory
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_ss.html

check out brian green's book, "the elegant universe", especially the last couple of chapters ... on m-theory, otherwise known as 'membrane' theory, and 'string theory' ... that our universe is just one of many 'membranes' which are all expanding and contracting ... membranes which are what we would traditionally call other 'universes' or other 'dimensions', where, coincidentally, physical laws of these other universes/membranes might be very different to our physics ... this hypothesis also gives us an explanation for the cause of the so-called 'big bang' ... the membrane which is our universe began to expand in a reaction to other membranes' expansions and contractions ...i love thinking about hypotheses like this, aren't they fascinating. isn't it interesting how science works ... from 'science fiction' to hypotheses to theories, always based on evidence ... so we've got the imagination, and the observations, combined ...

and im so sorry your too impatient for me to type out the meaning of the universe for you. the universe isnt like a big baked potato, you cant just microwave your answers in 30 seconds. =p

Answer 9

Matter did not exist until after the Big Bang.

Answer 10

We do not know, but we are willing to admit that we do not know and continue to look for the answer instead of shrugging and saying "must have been God".