How did the universe begin, And don't say the big bang?

Answer 1

The latest thoughts are that there are 11 dimensions in a thing called M theory. The 11th dimension has what are called membranes or simply - branes. The thinking is that when they collide, they can spawn a universe and then expansion takes over.

Answer 2

"The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in chich the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. And there are much longer time scales still. There is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the god who, after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep. The universe dissolves with him--until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself and begins again to dream the great cosmic dream. Meanwhile, elsewhere, there are an infinite number of other universes, each with its own go dreaming the cosmic dream. There great ideas are tempered by another, perhaps still greater. It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather the gods are the dreams of men."
Carl Sagan in Cosmos

Answer 3

The universe began with a single space-time pulse of minimum duration.
The pulse emerged about 10 to the minus 95 seconds from zero.
The pulse repeated adding one then two dimensions,giving us a 4 dimensional space-time quantum..
The accelerating expansion lasted for one thirty-billionths of a second,the radial velocity reached the speed of light so the acceleration stopped.
At this time there was a mature universe about as big as a marble.
There was no electro-magnetism,no strong or weak forces and no gravity The entity contained quantum errors that would eventually become the universe we experience to-day and us.

Answer 4

Why not ? look, we all know that the universe is expanding, right...well, if you try to return again to the past, this expansion resulted from what or, in another form, if the universe is expanding, then at the beginning, what was the universe like ? Maybe a salt of grain ! that began to expand from this point and size...The BigBang states that the universe with all its mass and density was a small grain that began to expand, how, by first "bigbanging" then expanding ! I'm still not truely sure of it but I do credit it as the most plausible theory about the universe's creation !

Answer 5

Well if you are not going to believe the Big Bang theory then I guess you have to believe that God created the universe. Them are the only 2 explanations.

Answer 6

Is there even a beginning? It could be that the universe has always "been". And if it began, then what did it begin from? Is the universe inside something else; what lies beyond it?

I know, I'm not much help. It is just food for thought.

Answer 7

Hi,

The big bang theory is based upon the red shifted light coming from space. Quite a big prediction from such a flaky assumption.
As we don't know all the forces at play in our universe (such as gravity, what space is and its properties,or even if telepathy is real etc...) accepting theories based upon far fetched analysis is foolish. When the scientific community stay close to reality things work better.

God hmmmph...

We are humans living in a physical reality bound by forces we can interact with (matter/energy). And forces having no mass which we can not interact with, namely the fabric of space (the source of gravity IMO). Perhaps we can eventually break through to detect non electrochemical matter such as the fabric of space, but if we do, there will, I am certain, be more and more questions beyond this next veil.

So keep BANGING away with the BIG questions. If you do solve it I want to know!

Oh yes the universe began on Tuesday.

Answer 8

Well if the very plausible Big Bang theory isn't what you want to hear then the only alternative I can give you is that magical belief that God created everything in a week. How bout that one? Give me a break!

Answer 9

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Answer 10

We don't know the beginning.

We do know that all the evidence indicates that when the universe was about 5x10^-43 seconds old, it was about 1.6x10^−35 meters across.

At that time, all the fundamental forces coexisted and all matter, energy, and spacetime expanded outward from the extremely hot and dense "singularity".