What was there before the "Big Bang"?

Answer 1

Nothing.

Answer 2

Well the big bang is what created the world around us as we know it today. With this I mean that through that massive exlposion, which happened 15 billion years ago, time and space (along with any other speculated dimensions are supposed to exist) were initialy formed. So no one can't answer your question: what was there before big bang? since there was no dimension of time in order to determine what happened before and what happened next. We will never be able to find what was before the big bang: it's like trying to read the page before the first page of a book. Simply there is no previous page and it doesn't have any meaning asking what was written on it.

Actually the big bang was formed by the explosion of a singularity (like these in black holes). Such extraordinary objects do not obey in the rules we know and thus for a singularity (since it creates an infinite gravity well) there are no dimensions (it is a rift in our world).

Answer 3

That is debatable. I have a book titled "The Oscillating Universe" that says there may be a series of Big Bangs. The universe expands to its limit after one, and then, it begins to contract in a Big Crunch. A variation is the "Damped Oscillating Universe". It says energy is dispersed, so that each Big bang is smaller than the previous one. There will not be enough energy available for a Big Bang eventually.

Answer 4

Please give us all a break.
This question has been asked time and time again.
It is the most hair brained thing there is to ask what
was there before the beginning?
As if someone here knows...

Do you suppose in your wildest imagination
that there is a book somewhere that lays this
out in detail and was written/printed prior to the Big Bang?

Do you suppose there is a trail of evidence out there in space that leads back to the scene of the crime (as it were)?
And, if there might just be a trail out there, do you honestly believe that anyone has been able to ever follow it back over
the billions of years of time that it took to lay the trail down?

Instead of asking absolutely stupid questions, why not study the things that are right here in front of you and so totally fascinating that they take years and years to fully appreciate. Then you will have achieved something.

Answer 5

You have to back up to zero time,as you approach zero time you go from something to nothing..
But you are faced with the fact that the nothing in some way had to produce something, including us.
An analysis of the situation results in a reality where nothing becomes something.
To go a bit further,though there was nothing,the nothing had to hold a potential that could become something,so the nothing had to be finite.
An infinite nothing would have no way of triggering it's potential to become something.
The big bang resulted from this and evolved into our universe and us.

Answer 6

Three main theories are currently taken into account to explain the universe before ours:

1) A black hole sea
According to this idea, the universe began as a black hole fluid, with maximum entropy or disorder. Our observable universe then emerged as a low-entropy bubble of ordinary space that underwent the conventional model of inflation.

2) Colliding branes
Another scenario uses string theory to porpose that our visible universe exists on a 3D membrane, or brane, floating in 4D space. Another brane collides withs ours every trillion years, giving rise to what looks like a bing bang and dark energy. In this model inflation does not occur.

3) Fragmenting universe
Was our universe originally ripped from a larger entity? Perhaps, as dark energy increased, it fragmented a mother universe into numerous baby universes, one of which underwent inflation to become ours. In turn, our universe is expanding an day give rise to babies of its own

Answer 7

nobody knows - because:

There are four forces in the universe. Two nucleur forces, electromagnetism and gravity. 4 of the forces can be described in terms of one another, meaning they are manifestations of the same phenomenon. Only gravity can not be described in terms of the other forces. At the beginning of time, all 4 forces were united into a single force. Physics is attempting to unify all 4 forces, but has not been successful yet. When this is achieved, perhaps it will reveal where the universe came from.

Answer 8

May be you ask this question because you are not satisfied with the answer - There was NOTHING.

Who knows may be some day at the very climax of human enlightenment, existence itself would say.........." and this is how it all ends.... Nothing beyond this. You fools dont' accept things.... But it isnt' your fault .. I made you that way."

Answer 9

the Big Silence

Answer 10

it could not be nothing, cause enerygy can't be created or destroyed. there was a minute speck with all the energy in the universe. (just an educated theory)

Answer 11

a big stick of dinomite