For the Big Bang believers...?

Question

I assume that if you believe the Big Bang theory, then you also believe other aspects of science. For instance, that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction. Going further, there is one main action that set off a trend of reactions that have led up to current situations in the universe. If this statement is true then there had to be an action to cause the Big Bang, and an action to cause the reaction that cause the Big Bang, and so on and so forth. Please explain to me what the first action was that started the sequence of events leading up to the Big Bang. And where did the small mass that exploded into the large mass come from?

Answer 1

I believe in the big bang and I have have strong moralistic God beliefs as well as an extensive belief in science and the wonders of this beautiful universe that God made with all the marvelous forces of this cosmos. Science is not the property of the religious or non religious and I for one am tired of imbeciles trying to make it an issue of religion when it is nothing more that common sense logic.

Answer 2

What "caused" the Big Bang? Actually, that's an entirely meaningless question. Once you rewind the clock that far, the "law" of cause and effect gets tossed out the window. Think of it this way - in order to have cause and effect, you have to have time. There's no way around it. And, up until the Big Bang, time was non-existent. So, how could you have something "cause" the Big Bang?

The Big Bang is a very difficult concept to grasp, even for the most intelligent physicists and cosmologists out there. It isn't so much a "bang" as an implosion. Imagine if you were standing inside a balloon and the balloon began to expand. It would go everywhere in all directions. What was there before the Big Bang? Actually, another meaningless question, but there are some ideas floating out there, such as everything was a singularity, though this has started to come under some scrutiny lately.

The most important point here, though, is that saying "I don't know" does not immediately mean "god did it." Those are two mutually exclusive statements. Just because I don't know what caused the Big Bang, or the answer to any of your questions, how is that evidence for your Judeo-Christian god? All it simply means is that I don't know and I'm okay with that. Someday we might very well figure it out. Or we might not. Either way, I'm fine with that.

Answer 3

Come on, now. If you actually wanted a real answer, you should've put this in the science section. I mean, come on. If you're trying to argue for the existence of a god, at least say so, instead of pointing out what you think are flaws within the big bang. Now, to address your arguments...

You demand an explanation of something for which there exists virtually no evidence, and from rational people? That makes absolutely no sense.

I don't know what caused the Big Bang. No one does. There are several hypotheses, but that's about as good as it gets. See how I can accept a mystery without inventing a convenient explanation? I don't need a god of the gaps, I'm content with examining the situation and searching for more evidence before I commit to a belief. To do anything else is fallacious.

One possibility is that time hasn't always existed. Whatever existed "before" the big bang wouldn't have to deal with things like causation, because causation only happens with time.

Another solution is the role that quantum fluctuation might have played within the creation of the universe, because quantum fluctuation does allow particles to come from nothing, if only for a short period of time.

But, by far the best answer, is the answer that the string hypothesis gives us, which is a cyclic universe model. The universe was created by a collision of multi-dimensional m-branes that have always existed. Our universe is just one part of a cycle that repeats infinitely many times.

Here. Read this.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C55B5-C29B-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF&sc=I100322

Answer 4

Science hasn't gotten that far back yet, give the guys at CERN in Geneva a few more months, when they get the new particle accelerator going there they hope to find the Higgs boson and that will help tell them a lot more about the Big Bang...be patient Science is working on the answers and they are not pretending to have an explanation they cannot yet prove unlike many religions.

Various religions claim to have explanations and all the answers but would you rather have any old explanation or a scientifically proven explanation, take your pick.

Answer 5

"And where did the small mass that exploded into the large mass come from"

That does not make any sense.

At any rate, I have no idea what happened to make the big bang go, um, bang, or what was before that (or if that is even a sensible question). However, that is not a good reason to say 'god diddit', especially since no origin myth strokes with what we now know of the history and nature of the universe.

There are a couple of interesting models popping up but nothing definite...yet.

Answer 6

Answer GOD:
All of The theory's Defy the law of physics, so thats science proving science wrong right there. How can something blow up and create a large quantity of something when there was nothing before. If there was nothing before there had to be something because nothing cant create something and something cant come from nothing.
God obviously created the universe because the earth is so perfect we can actually live in it. If God wasn't there, there would be no point to living. We would Live, Die, Rot, and let the sea sponges gobble us up for the earth to go on (Atheist's point of view). So there has to be a higher power in order to create a cell or DNA so complex. Scientist act like evolution has its own mind to create things unbelievable. Well thats my point of view.

Answer 7

1) At the quantum level, we do not know if cause and effect behave as we expect at the macroscopic level. At the quantum level, some things like radioactive decay and quantum tunneling may be spontaneous.

2) Who says that the entire mass-energy of the universe did not exist prior to the big bang?

Answer 8

It's quite possibly a continuous series of perpetual causes and reactions. The Universe expands and contracts, expands and contracts, ad infinitum. The expansion causes the contraction and vise-a-versa. The 'small mass' would be the result of the inevitable contraction.

Answer 9

My favorite theory is that of the colliding branes.

A parallel universe moving along a hidden dimension smacked into ours. The collision heated our universe, creating a sea of quarks, electrons, protons, photons, and other subatomic particles. It also imparted microscopic ripples, like ocean waves crashing on a shore.

These ripples generated tiny fluctuations in temperature and density, the seeds from which all cosmic architecture—from stars to gargantuan clusters of galaxies to galactic super clusters—ultimately arose.

Answer 10

No one knows for sure. I am more inclined to believe that there was a big crunch. I think that the Universe has always existed.