what was here before the big bang? (no religious answers)?

Question

Ok what was here before that great kaboom. I dont want the religious horaah thats too easy to say. And technically tired of the the faith card always being pulled if you cant explain something. Anyways want a good answer.

Answer 1

according to the Steinhardt-Turok model, the universe is in an endless series of epochs which begin with a `big bang' and end in a `big crunch.

Answer 2

Everyone talks of the Big Bang as the reason for the appearance of the Universe The Big Bang is only a theory.It has not developed past that stage and it will always be just a theory.See how easy we accept things without close scrutiny.The scientists are brainwashing us into accepting a scientific suggestion as fact.When the Big Bang is no longer a theory which it will never be then we can go back and come up with another theory about what was before.And when that has ceased to become a theory we will know the answer.
NO RELIGION. (but it would have made it a lot easier to explain instead of all those theories)

Answer 3

Per your requirements, you will not get a good answer, as we were not here so any answer would have to be a belief of faith. Faith in either religious or scientific background. Science wise, according to theory, nothing was here. But also according to science (physics) you need a catalyst for an explosion, so where did the big bang come from? Who or what lit the fuse? I could accept the big bang if life was not a product of the bang. But then where did life come from? Why is a law of physics matter can neither be created or destroyed? Only altered. Well I am sorry that I was not able to give a good answer, but by your request I feel I did explain what I believe in. As a suggestion I would be not so much concerned by what was here before, but what will be after.

Answer 4

It wasn't a boom, there was no detonation, which is the image conjured by the name.

Since the dimension of time was created at the moment defined as T=0 (possibly when a space dimension became of of time) then it can be argued that there was no "before" in the traditional sense.

The space dimensions are contained within the universe also, so there isn't really an outside either. There is so much of a nothing that it is also a nowhere, there is literally nothing and nowhere to exist in, there being no dimensions outside or before the universe.

That is what the calculations suggest anyway. Finding evidence of when there wasn't actually anything at all to leave any evidence has some inherent difficulties.

Answer 5

I can give you two answers. The first answer is my own personal theory. The second answer is from something I learned from a science documentary on TV soon after I had created my own theory.

The First Answer:
1) Think of space as being divided into two sections. The first section is white space. White space is a space that has an unlimited and an infinite amount of material that goes on forever. (So with in white space, with there being an unlimited and an infinite amount of material that goes on forever that also means that the concept of time is irrelevant.) The second section is black space. Black space is a space that is infinitely empty forever and ever. Now two things could have happened. The first thing that could have happened is that a particle from white space had been introduce into black space and at that point the that one particle had exploded into the BIG BANG which had occurred around 13 to 15 billion years ago. The second thing that could have happened is that white space could have introduced a leakage into black space thus creating not only the BIG BANG (or a BIG LEAK) but also creating all of the particles in our universe that had followed immediately after the BIG BANG (or a BIG LEAK). At the point that any amount of white space enters into black space is the same point that we begin to measure the age of our universe.
(Keep in mind that since white space and black space are both infinite, it also means that there may be an infinite number of universes spread out all over the place at any given time.)

The Second Answer:
2) The second answer is that our universe is one of many universes that have come and gone and that have came and went. For example think of a black hole. A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a huge region of space becomes completely engulfed into the black hole. No matter or radiation (including light) that has entered its region can ever escape it. Now the inverse and the opposite end of a black hole is where everything is funneled out. Now when this happens it can be called a white hole. A lot of scientist now believe that the BIG BANG of our universe had been created by the process of a white hole 13 to 15 billion years ago. The funneling between a black hole and a white hole is like an umbilical cord. One theory is that there are a lot of universes, and each universe is trapped inside something like a bubble, and the bubbles are connected through an umbilical cord or through a worm hole. At the point that any amount of material from a black hole exit itself out as a white hole is the same point that we begin to measure the age of our universe.

Answer 6

Nothing Not Even Space When Talking Of Our Present Dimension

Figure It Out Yourself ' In The Beggining, There Was Word, The Word Was With God And The Word Was God '
And God Was In A Parallel Dimension From Where He Caused The Big Bang In Our Dimension

Answer 7

Before time zero nothing existed.
This nothing had to have a potential and it had to be finite.
An infinite potential could not change to become a something.
Just after time zero a quantum space-time pulse of minimum size and duration came into existence.
The pulse continued and eventually evolved into the universe we see and experience to-day.
Being a quantum entity it could not be infinite and one day will go out of existence.

Answer 8

One of my theories is that there was a universe prior to this one. The previous universe's inhabitants didn't pay attention to the warning signs of the upcoming apocalypse until it was too late. Therefore, the universe collaspes upon itself into nothingness before the next big bang creates our universe.

Answer 9

Nobody knows. I think one of the better answers is to consider that on the smallest possible scale, space and time are indistinguishable, so that asking "what" was before the big bang is like asking "where" was before the big bang.

Answer 10

...an infinity of nothing.

Or, if you want me to get theoretical...maybe universes just spontaneously appear within other universes, like bubbles within bubbles. If that is the case, our big bang would not have been THE big bang. It would have been one in an infinite series.

Sorry...this stuff keeps me awake at night. ;)