Before the Big Bang?....?

Question

If the entire universe is actually only 13 billion years old what was it like 1 year before the big bang. Alot of people say nothing, but they can never say what that nothing is.

Answer 1

The big bang was strictly a thought form.

Nothing was any different the year befor than it was the year after.



This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Just before the Big Bang was the Huge Crunch and just before that we had the Universal Scatter. And if you wish to go back some more, it was a time called, Coming Together Again!
The people before the modern era celebrated this rendition of the Cycle of Life annually where the entire story of the Universe was spoken to about in a series of staged presentations which were called The Faces of Humanity.
Ancient Greek art expressed this view and tradition long before the Monotheistic Christian, Islamic and Jewish Era began wipping out the old way of viewing the existing rendition of the Circle of Life.

Answer 3

Good question!
anything that exists to have a big bang has to have been there before, and someone had to put it there. That is the part that scientists and for the most part people in general do not or don't want to think about. There is only one place where something comes from nothing and that has to be from GOD. Although we cannot grasp the enormity of all that is around us, it takes more faith to believe that it all just happened than to give credit to a Higher Supreme Being who made it all happen. Before us and after us, the Creator will be and always has and always will be. Sometimes we get so arrogant to think that we are above the very creator and we can minimize His existence because we don't get it. Well that would be like minimizing or completly ignoring people who created / invented things we know exist - light bulbs, the car, tires, computers, ipods, etc, you get the drift. Bottom line, a thing created has a starting point, in the case of our universe, us, it would be God.

Answer 4

It was an absolute nothing... it's one of those quirky physics things... don't sweat it. It was followed by what is known as a "singularity" - a single point of stuff which was immeasurably small which exploded into the big bang.

In actual fact to discuss time as "1 year before the big bang" is a scientific nonsense - time did not exist until the singularity formed and exploded.

For those who search for God... God was the singularity... He existed for a billionth of a second yet created an entire universe

Answer 5

Before the Big Bang all of the matter in the universe was compressed into one little area. There might have been a super-planet the size of a golf ball, but there was nothing on it. Then it exploded in a "Big Bang" and all of the planets and stars were formed.

Answer 6

If you think about it, there would always be a time before the beginning of the universe unless time started when the universe started. God adds nothing to this by the way, the same argument holds.

What is amazing about the human brain is that it can even contemplate questions such as this, doubt very much we can give a simple coherent answer to it.

Answer 7

What if there was no Big Bang? What would you have? Nothing. And do you know how much intelligence is required to endorse the Big Bang? About as much as was there before it happened.

It takes a lot of faith to believe that a giant cosmic "fart" resulted in an infinite universe with a solar system in a galaxy where one planet had all of the "just right" conditions for some primordial ooze to randomly change into something else and keep changing until humans came to be.

Ever read Goldilocks? Your story sounds similar.

Answer 8

Judging by the tenacity with which it's demonstrated here, the only thing that could have existed before, during and after the Big Bang was the Argument from Personal Incredulity.

General note: if your response includes the phrase 'There must have been...', 'There can't have been...' or 'I can't believe that...', it may not be worth typing.

CD

Answer 9

Well even nothing is something so something had to be there, even if its just darkness and space, its still something. This is a question that can't be answered because if you keep going back far enough then eventually you'll come to the conclusion that the universe has no origin, its eternal. Pretty spooky stuff.

Answer 10

I've got a sneaking feeling that there's no such thing as 'nothing'. what i mean by that is even an absolute vacuum has negative energy. there is no such thing as absolute 'nothing' inside this universe, so it might be a good guess that it's the same outside. i think 'nothing' is just a human conception, a product of our linear existence where we see things grow from the simple to the complex and 'nothing' is the simplest thing of all. you ought to read up on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's very hard going, but enlightening.