what happened before the big bang?

Answer 1

God said, "Let there be light."

Answer 2

Nobody knows for sure, but this is what I think:

I think that the universe is a pulsating cycle. Before the Big Bang, another ancient universe existed. The thing is that there is more mass than necessary. This would cause gravity to pull every single object towards one single tiny spot which would be the center of the universe. This would be know as the Big Crunch. When there was so much mass in that spot, it exploded, known as the Big Bang. And now we are at our own.

My opinions seems pretty crazy, but that's what I think.

Answer 3

Well jim g 76 was the closest on this one. Everyone who said you can't know is not educated on M-theory. This theory takes us, with our laws of physics intact, before the Big Bangs. It is, as jim said, an extension of String Theory. As a matter of fact M-theory is a meshing of the Big Bangs (yes plural) and String Theory. M-theory basically involves the beginning of the universe (Big Bangs) and all the matter in it (String Theory) Acccording to this theory there are multiple universes contained within Membranes. When two of these membranes come into contact. They don't hit at one specific point. Since the ripple they hit at multiple points. According to M-theory these multiple collisions are enough to create the matter within our universe. It also says it may be possible to create a universe in a lab. Alot of mind numbing things to go over in M-theory but the math and science is there. If you are truly interested in the time before the big bang look into M-theory.

Answer 4

One theory is that the big bang was an explosion of a black hole. Prior to that event, the universe was populated much as it is now - - with stars, galaxies, black holes, etc. Then one black hole exploded. The idea that time and space did not exist before the big bang is just nonsense. Physicists love to define space and time as mathematical expressions, so when their equations go to zero, they say that time and space don't exist. But for the rest of us, time and space, or more properly, the passage of time and the extent of space, are concepts that, while difficult to define, are nevertheless common sense to our experience. Time has always existed and will never end, and space goes on in all directions without limit.

Answer 5

All partcles were condensed into a space smaller than an atom; forces unimanigable because every law of phisics contradicted one another. It has been said that quantum "foam" was present but I dont know what that ment exactly. After the bang, all of the particles were charged, unable to keep any atom stable( being literaly one million trillion trillion degrees.) the scientists have telescopes that see far far out there. (You see, the farther you see, the more you look into the past because the speed of light travels only so fast.) It can see 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000042 seconds afterthe big bang.

Answer 6

hi

You have to remember that time and space are properties of this universe. Before the big bang, everything was at a single point, a singularity.

Time and space did not exist until a few nanoseconds after the event.

It is a bit tricky thinking of sthe singularity where time does not travel forwards, but im afraid thats what happens.

We will never ever know what happens before the singularity, lots of people hope that the universe collapses in on itself in a big crunch and the whole thing starts again.

See you next time around!

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Answer 7

Before the big bang there was nothing,but nothing with a qualification.
The nothing had to have a potential and the potential had to be finite.
We know after time zero the universe came into existence.
the potential became a space-time pulse and the finite state allowed the potential to coalesce.
It was the beginning of a finite incident.
One day the universe will go out of existence the potential will disappear and the state will be eternal.
An incident that happened once and will never happen again.

Answer 8

It is not possible to know. Particle physicists can calculate the events after the big bang back to 10 to the –43 seconds (the Planck Era). Beyond that everything collapses into a singularity. All frames of reference goto zero or infinity. The very laws of nature did not exist.

Answer 9

Current scientific theory has no idea what happened before the big bang, or even whether or not there was a time before the big bang.

Answer 10

No one knows but ive heard a theory thats so stupid its funny. Its that all matter in the universe gets compacted into a space as big as the dot on this "i" then it explodes hence the "Big Bang." Thats insane. seriously though, no offense but that question probably will never be known. Anyone who thinks they know the answer is so diluted its ridiculous.

Answer 11

no one knows for sure, but recent speculation on mathematical advancements in superstring theory guesses that this universe was spawned from a part of another universe. that other universe has to undergo statistically rare quantum fluctuations in the higgs field, which results in rapid cosmic inflation. mathematical analysis of this idea shows that, using inflation, a completely new universe can arise from a chunk of matter no more than 20kg in weight.
but this doesn't really solve anything, it just makes the mystery that much deeper. if we came from that universe, where did that universe come from? you could repeat this infinitely, and accept that, but i think that's a wrong answer. our universe is based on mathematics, and every time you get an infinite answer its definitely wrong.
there's a bigger picture out there, we're just too small to see it.