If the universe was compacted into a ball at one time?

Question

What was outside of that ball?

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Answer 1

Nothing. No space-time, no mass-energy, no nothing. It's a difficult concept for a lot of people to grasp, but that's the way it was before the 'Big Bang'.

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Doug

Answer 2

It wasn't necessarily compacted into a ball, but the exact nature of things before the "big bang" or even now, aren't known.

The universe we know is actually 3D space. In the big bang model, the space was literally not here at t <0

It was space itself that expanded.

Answer 3

M-theory is a cutting-edge theory of physics that deals with the extension of superstring theory. It is somewhat contentious in the physics community, as it lacks empirical evidence. If ever experimentally verified, M-theory and string theory would represent remarkable advances in science.

M-theory has been the target of increasing skepticism as some (notably Peter Woit and Lee Smolin) argue that string theorists have overstated many of the theory's strengths while underplaying its weaknesses

Unlike more conventional views of creation in modern physics, that are Ex nihilo, the M-Theory vision, although not yet complete, is of the whole observable universe being one of many extended 4 dimensional branes in an 12 dimensional spacetime. Although branes similar to that representing our universe can co-exist in the theory, their physical laws could differ from our own, as could their number of dimensions. Some proponents of the theory now believe that a collision of two branes may have been responsible for the Big Bang.

thats said...

The big bang was not an explosion of matter; it was an explosion of energy

Using Einstein’s equation E=MC2 mater and energy are interchangeable. We have already turned mater into energy so the reverse would also be true.

The mater in the universe was transformed from the energy of the big bang.

Answer 4

Any answer you receive is just as good as any other answer because there is NO answer. The bottom line is that nobody..repeat, NOBODY..knows what if anything came before the Big Bang. Lots and lots of concepts, but none that can even be called a theory because there's not a single shred of supportive physical evidence.

Instead of driving yourself nuts trying to find a real answer, just try to imagine the pre-Big Bang as being an absolutely infinite void...no space, no time, no energy, no mass, no nothing.

Answer 5

The universe wasn’t exactly compacted into a ball, but everything was much (much!) closer together.

To restate an overused metaphor, if the universe is on the surface of a soap bubble, there’s never any edge to find anything beyond, whether it’s the size of a grain of sand or a weather balloon.

Answer 6

That question needs you to read on "Compton effect". In short, it is the conversion of a definite amount of energy into two particles that will act as mirror image. One of them is a negatively charged positive mass (like an electron), and the other is a positively charged negative mass (like a positron). This all happens in full space or where is nothing at all. This phenomenon is produced in laboratory in fully vacuumed containers. The electron-like corpuscle produced the first universal big bang (same happened with the positron), and the interference between the two spherically resulting volumes that are expanding allows the negative mass bodies , called "black holes" to absorb all positive masses attracted to it, including energy produced by them, like light in a trial to reach to a neutral state of zero mass. The initial energy will be produced, and the cycle repeats...so we have an infinite time...and an infinite number of occurrence as if we follow a circular trajectory of events.

Answer 7

Actually, if you perscribe to the big bang theory the entire unverse was compressed to a single point smaller than the head of a pin.

Outside the point was pure nothingness.

The real question was what was the universe doing before that point in time? What came before then??

Answer 8

It was never compacted into a ball.
If it had been it wouldn't have anywhere to hang it's hat and no way of knowing when to blow up.
It started as a single space-time pulse and evolved from there.

Answer 9

Space. Ive pondered the same thing myself, but it gives me a f**kin headache. I argued with my friend for years that space had an end, but then after the end whats on the other side?Matter - Space. The human mind just cant comprehend infinity or eternity or whatever you want to call it, thats why we turn to religion or christianity, because its just to crazy to think that its just "here"