The Big Bang created all the solar systems, etc, but what created the space where the BB took place?

Answer 1

If we look at the concept of the big bang from the beginning... all would become clear! At the time of dissolution of the Cosmos... the old cosmos... everything in whole Cosmos reduces to the size of half a thumb. This half a thumb is the cluster of all purified souls atmans in the Cosmos that have reached their last leg in the cosmic life cycle... the 8.4 millionth manifestation! And having done so... all souls atmans regained their original pure pristine form!

This half the size of a thumb... the cluster of purified souls atmans... cosmic energy of unimaginable magnitude unable to retain itself for long explodes with a big bang giving birth to a new cosmos... a new cosmic life cycle! The size of Cosmos at any given point of time is never fixed. Ever since the big bang occurred... the size of the Cosmos is still expanding! Space and time theories are relative.

The creation of space is a cosmic concept... visualization of this concept by the limited power of the senses and the mind is prohibited by God Almighty. Only when one gains enlightenment (kaivalya jnana) and salvation (moksha)... does the concept become clear! The concept of big bang was like ABC to Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed! Every enlightened soul on the spiritual path realizes the truth at the end of the cosmic journey.

When we blow a balloon... initially it is a very small mass! As it is blown... blank air fills the balloon. Similarly the whole Cosmos is made up of dark matter aka ether. More on Big Bang theory - http://www.godrealized.com/bigbangtheory.html

Answer 2

There was no space into which the big bang expanded. Space began with the big bang. This is the same case that there was no "before" the big bang, for time started with the big bang.

Think of it this way, the big bang happened everywhere. Here where I am, there where you are, there in the Crab nebula, and everywhere else in the entire universe. The big bang was the birth of the whole universe, and we are now made of energies that started from there, and as so far, we can describe mathematically that our universe has not spacial end, not "edge". There is not "outside" the universe, if that is what your question is implying. The expansion of the universe is not like the expansion of a baloon, which expands into air. The expansion of the universe is simply the moving apart of its elements. It is not expanding into something. The universe, you see, has a shape that cannot be visualized with our Euclidean mind. The universe does not have a Euclidean geometry, it has a Riemannian geometry. The math that descibes studies these weird geometries is called topology.

The big gang can be described mathematically. And math is the language of science. Don't belive people who try to discredit the big gang theory through prose, the big bang is a very strong theory mathematically, and it needs to be attacked that way, if you want to attack it.

Answer 3

Of course any prediction science gives relies on the equations holding up. They fall at/close to the big-bang.Science can only guess what/if anything was before it.

Most easy explanations of the big bang theory looks at the universe from "outside".What you see as the space where BB took place, isn't part of the universe. Everything in the universe was/still is inside the "explosion" that took place. If there was "anything" outside of the explosion the physicists haven't found it yet.

I think the best answer to your question was proposed by Stephen Hawkins.

As you look at times closer and closer to the projected point of the Big Bang, time begins to flow slower (due to the way the density of the universe would affect time). At the time of the BB, time wouldn't have flown at all. You can not have anything before/at that time, as it still wouldn't have happened yet!

It's a bit of cop out, but it seems to work.

I've included the following aside because its humorous in a Murphy's Law sort of way:.

Hawkins give the above theory at a series of lectures held by the vatican, where the then pope opened with a statement saying he didn't mind scientists looking at the Big Bang, because he could reconcile it with the christian creation myth. However he did mind them looking into what might have happened before the Big Bang, or why it had happened, because he felt that was looking into Gods "reasons" for the creation.

Answer 4

Our space is the surface of a 4D sphere, there are no boundary in normal sense, but it is finite. So the expansion of the Big Bang itself is 4 dimensional instead of usual 3 dimension.
When there is a singularity forming in a universe like the one happened when a star collapse forming a black hole, the space-time curvature become infinite and the predictability of any law of physic will break down. So in this kind of condition, any physical concept like space, time, mass, etc will have no meaning.
The region beyond a singularity is impossible to predict using our law of physic, and therefore is not part of our universe, it is other universe, where the law of physic is different.
Because the c-value in two different universe could be different, a matter with lesser mass in previous universe with higher c value could become energy and transferred to a new universe with lower c value, and become a greater mass. So in this singularity creation of matter and energy is possible.

Answer 5

Before the big bang took place nothing existed.
This nothing had to have a potential and the potential had to be finite.
Some way it triggered itself producing a single space-time pulse that eventually evolved into our universe and us.

Answer 6

You are assuming that there was a creation. I believe that everything simply existed, and that the existence of all of the matter/energy that we call the product of the big bang was simply brought into such an unstable state.

Our best guess about the Big Bang is that all matter existed at very fundamental levels in a very, very large blackhole. The idea is that when a blackhole gets too big, it explodes, but there no working, mathematical theories on any of this. Many people believe that blackholes simply recycle matter (creating mostly hydrogen after their big bangs). After a star gets to the stage of fusion where the elements become iron, then fusion stops and the star collapses to a very hot (100,000 Kelvin) dwarf about the size of earth; matter must be continually recycled in order to continue the process of star (and thus solar system) creation.

IF you want to think about space, you must think about matter/energy. The space in and around a black hole is very distorted from our common experiences and perceptions of it. While the environment (space) at the location of a blackhole is not well understood, we are certain that it is very different from the space in which we exist. Time is thought to slow to a virtual stop, and matter ceases to exist as subatomic particles (protons, electrons, etc.) We believe that even the quarks which comprise our protons and neutrons are even rendered in more basic forms, perhaps even completely down to the point of pure energy. Normally energy (photons) exist independent of each other, but in very high concentrations, bandwidths, and powers, they appear to interactive additively. Perhaps, there is a limit to how much energy you can add together before there is a galactic explosion. Space appears to stretch, so that objects appear to contract in length; thus entering a blackhole is much like the effect of approaching the speed of light. Light is red shifted as it accelerates into the blackhole, just like an object accelerating away from you to the speed of light.

Even if the conditions for the big bang involve the collapse of the event horizon, there is always a death spiral of matter outside it, thus space must always exist (at least in the presence of matter), but it (or this ideological construction which we call space) simply stretches in the presence of matter/energy.

EDIT: In response to a previous answer, evidence indicates that the rate of expansion is slowing. Everyone expected the rate of expansion to initially be quite fast (it was afterall, a BIG bang). The initial discovery of the slowing rate of expansion was a surprise. The discovery of dark matter and dark energy (now believed to account for about 75% of the total matter/energy in the universe) begins to answer those questions. The thinking is that if the rate of expansion is decelerating, then eventually there will be a point at which there will be no more expansion. The thinking follows that whatever force was/is slowing the expansion will then begin an progressively faster collapse.

Show me a place where there exists no matter nor energy, and I will consider the possibility that space (or our construct of it) may not exist there, but I tell you that matter and energy are observed in every region of space that we can look (which is everywhere/time that objects or energies are able to travel to earth for our observation). It is even thought that matter/energy are the very basis for the construct which we call space, which explains the change of space and time in the presence of increasing amounts of matter and energy.

PS: Be wary of those who would attribute the unknown to either God or the infinite. Those are just attempts to dismiss our inability to study such things properly. Frankly, I suppose that our whole space-time approach is flawed given the use of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the Theory of Relativity, and the wave-particle duality in attempting to reconcile strange behaviors outside of the traditional Newtonian world in which we live. Space and time are just (IMHO, ill-suited) conceptual constructs for understanding our non-ideal world, especially beyond the environmental limits found on earth. Imposing a 3D grid (even with curvature) may be as primitive as imposing a 2D, flat world model on the earth; yes, people once thought that the world was flat and later that everything in space revolved around the earth as the center of the universe.

Answer 7

Physicists need a theory of quantum gravity before they can even attempt to explain how the big bang occurred. Currently, every theory they have tried blows up in their face (figuratively). Quantum gravity equasions are required because black holes and the big bang are the only few places in the universe where gravity is significantly strong on the quantum level of subatomic particles.

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Answer 9

The BB not only created all the matter and energy in the Universe, it also created space itself, and even time. Before the BB there was literally nothing.... not even space.

Answer 10

There is a controversial thing called singularity, which is still debated by scientists today. It is simply a point with infinite density and temperature. This early phase gives birth to our universe.