was there nothing anywhere before the universe existed?

Question

In my opinion, at one time there was NOTHING ANYWHERE. Not even one single atom, No form of matter of any kind anywhere Even though I respect your religious beliefs, If you will. please leave God out of your answer.If you disagree please explain why you think there was something somewhere in the space where the universe now occupies

Answer 1

The theory is that matter cannot be created from nothing; it is impossible. So there had to be something, somewhere in the universe, always. Never was a "before" the universe existed. There is nothing that could possibly ever exist if there was no mass. To have mass, there has to be at the very least a quark or nanoquark or whatever the tiniest particle on a molecule is... Now I see there is a quantum theory about vaculeons. (see source link)
There just had to be some mass / matter, even if it was infinitely before a "big bang". I'm guessing it may have been a vast number of individual "vaculeons" that got together and formed molecules - elements with actual properties - that eventually gravitated together, and according to their properties came into power all the physical laws.
I've heard a theory that the current "big bang" is just one of a series of endless "big bangs" before us, and still to come, as all the matter that exists is finally blown so far apart that it would be undetectable, then slowly all gravitates back into such a tight little ball that it all "big bangs" again... and again... scientific evidence says that the current universe is still expanding. We are just another recycle!
There are probably even an infinite number of other exploding / imploding universes far beyond ours.
It just makes no sense to me that space could be finite in any way; there is nothing outside of it. It's just that our perceptions are so finite that it is easier to imagine that wherever we think is "empty space", there is "nothing", and that there must be a "before" at some point. So imagine, what would have come before the "before"? Now imagine -there is no such thing as "before"! Spacetime is infinite, and is in actuality filled with these unimaginably tiny little potentialities they are calling "vaculeons".
The universe, space, could never be or have been "empty"; it had to be filled with something of potential to become what it is now. I think there is no such a thing as "nothing".
Boggles the mind, hm!

Answer 2

According to theories that are even accepted by Jesuit astronomers, tis question is like asking "What was the colour of the wallpaper in this room before the house was built?" The space that the universe occupies did not exist before the universe came into being: The whole continuum was exapanding along with the matter inside it as time and space started.

It's a really bizzarre concept to get into, but the whole of Creation ( Whoops, sorry, but no other words fit as well ) even the empty space it is in, came about and expanded from one point in most theories . . . . Hawking suggests that this is why the instant of the start of everything may be impossible to determine for various reasons, because not even any empty space existed to have properties to study now.

Answer 3

Th question is illogical. The universe IS space. So asking what space was there before the big bang is like asking which star did the Earth rotate around before the Sun created it.

The kernal that became the big bang was not the size of an atom. People say that because the think in things of big and small, which is a concept in space. It was a singularity, which means it was a point of infinite density, and that it was infinitly small. At least, that is the way the universe is theorized to exist right up to the big bang. All of space was condensed into that point. Then the big bang happened, and like the surface area of a balloon, the universe began to grow.

Answer 4

Once upon a time, 20 billions of years ago, all matter
(all elementary particles and all quarks and
their girlfriends- antiparticles and antiquarks,
all kinds of waves: electromagnetic, gravitational,
muons… gluons field ….. etc.) – was assembled in a “single point”.
It is interesting to think about what had surrounded the “single point”.
The answer is :
EMPTINESS- NOTHING….!!!
Ok!
But why does everyone speak about EMPTINESS- NOTHING in
common phrases rather than in specific, concrete terms?
I wonder why nobody has written down this EMPTINESS- NOTHING in
the form of a physical formula ? You see, every schoolboy knows that
is possible to express the EMPTINESS- NOTHING condition
by the formula T=0K.
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Once there was a “Big Bang”.
But in what space had the Big Bang taken place
and in what space was the matter of the Big Bang distributed?
Not in T=0K?
It is clear, that there is only EMPTINESS, NOTHING, in T=0K.
Now consider that the Universe, as an absolute frame of reference is
in a condition of T = 2,7K (rests relic radiation of the Big Bang ).
But, the relic radiation is extended and in the future will change and decrease.
What temperature can this radiation reach?
Not T=0K?
Hence, if we go into the past or into the present or into the future,
we can not escape from EMPTINESS- NOTHING T=0K.
Therefore it is necessary to begin to think from T=0K.
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About the theory of the “Big Bang” is written the thick (very thick) books.
But anywhere do not write about the reason of the “Big Bang”.
Anybody does not know it.
I know.
Action, when the God opens his palm,
have named the “Big Bang”.
And action, when the God compresses his palm,
have named " a single point”.
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Answer 5

Before the universe came into existence there was nothing,but there had to be a potential
The potential,though nothing,had to be finite.
Unless these two conditions existed the universe could never have emerged.
The universe is an incident,with a beginning and an end.
The end will again be nothing,but with a difference.
When the universe goes out of existence it will enter a state of eternal nothing,no potential or any thing it will be the end of an incident that will never happen again.

Answer 6

I believe that we as mere mortals are ages away from being able to properly answer this questions, how ever I do believe, that like absolutely everything there is a scientific answer. In the mean time you will have to satisfy your self with either, what you believe, or the scientific theories put forth by the worlds scientific leaders on this subject. Personally I believe that our universe is one of many (like Einstein believed) and that the bubble of our universe expands and contracts infinately into nothing then into everything... keeping in mind that when when one touches on the realm of quantum mechanics, what was once nothing become infinate once more... infintesimal...unimaginable, unbelieveable, once you leave the realm of Einsteinian physics, anything goes. I for one am excited by this, it means anything goes, anything is poosible. All of a sudden all those silly ideas passed around the drunken high school parties, or on the way down from LSD highs, or on peyote sunrises, seem possible, at that gives me hope.

Answer 7

well its as big question which still dont have a correct answer today. well there is many theories existing today about that . but the most appealing is the big bang theory according to which the whole universe was compressed into a tiny point which is even smaller than atom.and at one instance it exploded to give eneygy well even at that time matter was not formed not even light.they all were produced long after that.u better go through some scientific webs kike ,discovery channel .or natgeo.

Answer 8

There must have been something. The universe was supposedly compressed to the size of an atom but it still existed somewhere. The question is beyond my comprehension but that is how it seems to my feeble mind. It could be that there are many universes but they exist beyond our universe in some way. The space we live in is expanding into something.

Answer 9

Did electrons exist before they have been stumbled on? no one has ever considered an extra image voltaic planet (that is impossible to be sure them by way of fact their determine stars are too fantastic, the planets too dim) yet they're nonetheless exerting a graviational pull on the determine vast call and blockading out various the sunshine as they eclipse the vast call, hence they actually do exist even although they are actually not quickly reported. The philosophical question on which that's based (if a tree falls down and no one hears it) is a diverse question fullyyt and speaks to no longer the character of existence yet to the character of sound. Is sound vibrations contained in the air or electric powered impulses interpreted by utilising the innovations. Now you need to ask the comparable component approximately seen stimulus, if I close my eyes is my keyboard nonetheless black? although inspite of my eyes closed i recognize my keyboard remains there as i will experience its presence. perchance in philosophy you need to discover somebody prepared to work together you on the character of existence itself and in Physics you may discover somebody prepared to talk with regards to the Copenhagen interpretation of Heisenberg's uncertainty concept and Schrodinger's Cat yet so some distance as i'm worried existence is indpendent of fact.

Answer 10

In my view, such questions cannot be answered scientifically, since by definition, all our information is of this universe which came into existence from a singularity some billion years ago. So, waht was there before that time, is pure speculation, since time itself was born with the universe.