a question for big bangers. What was the pre existing conditions for the cause and effect of the big bang?

Question

what is its a priori? a priori being something that is KNOWN to be VALID in ADVANCE of the experience of the big bang. What do you know?

nrao_kid you still did not ANSWER the question. your petty dismissives are but mere wax arrows shot at the Sun.

Mr. cosmo. I did not mention "supernatural beings" in my question.

Answer 1

You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder, which ironically is something that would not make you a very good scientist. Cosmologists readily acknowledge that they DO NOT KNOW what happened in the very first instances of the Big Bang, although they can say what happened to within millionths of a second after.
Scientists never claim to know everything, otherwise there wouldn't be any science, would there? Unlike fundamentalist religious types, who claim to know the answer for anything and everything without a shred of evidence.

Answer 2

Don't you think that it is somewhat presumptive to ask the average men and women in the street what occurred, or what the situation was before the "Big Bang" hypothesis created everything? I mean, it is like you feel there is a book that was written and printed back at that time in which the total explanation of everything is contained, and, one of these simple citizens of the world has a copy. Well, I don't think you will find one. All discussions of this topic are just hypothesis, theory, and silly myths.

Answer 3

Well, trailerpark, since there is no evidence of anything that survived the "Big Bang", and since the "Big Bang" is itself a theory based on present day observations, no matter how "old" the lightyear phenomenon might age it, and since you strike me as a reasonably intelligent individual, I would have to say that you came here with your unanswerable question and a Creationist or Intelligent Design agenda.

How's that, Detective Columbo?

And it's glaringly obvious that you're fishing for an argument.

Answer 4

We don't really know anything. That's the way it is with science---sometimes you just don't know. Deal with it. (And don't go imagining supernatural entities to fill in the gap.)

There are theories. "Continuous Eternal Inflation" is a scenario for producing an infinite number of Big Bang universes, using physics that we sort of understand. There is some marginal observational evidence for this idea.

Answer 5

Listen, I was there when it happened and this whole "big bang" thing is way overblown (pun intended).

A couple of universes with 11 dimensions got a little too close and collided along several intervals and formed this 4 dimensional sub-universe we live in. No big deal. Happens all the time.

Eventually, you will be able to make your own big-bangs and see for yourselves.

Answer 6

What do we (humans) know ? As far as your specific questions go, absolutely nothing. While scientists have been pretty sure of what happened immeidately AFTER the big bang, events/conditions before that is totally unknown. Hopefully, one day, there will be a verifiable theory.

Answer 7

You don't understand. Not only was the Big Bang the origin of all matter and energy we now see in the universe, but space and time as well. There is no "..in ADVANCE.." relative to this universe.

Answer 8

Big bang theory is not really scientifically proven because you cannot devise an experiment to see its effects ie creating conditions in pre big bang universe and then exploding it to see it forming the stuff in the universe.
Therefore, it is widely accepted because it seems to explain certain scientific phenomenon such as conservation of mass and conservation of energy etc

Answer 9

Presumably, all the mass of the universe was concentrated into a clump of neutrons the size of a pea. Too bad none of us was there to see it......

Answer 10

...everything had been just perfect...nothing was going on...when something went wrong and disaster struck...