Did the universe begin from nothing, or has it been here for eternity?

Question

We have to accept one of two mind-blowing possibilitites. Either time has no beginning and the universe has been in existance eternally, or the Universe began from absolutely nothing. No matter, no micro-organisms, no light - absolutely nothing (otherwise where did they come from and when did their existance begin). I think my head is about to explode - so which is it?

Answer 1

The natural state is Eternity. The Universe has been expanding and contracting Forever. This is an Eternal cycle. There is no need for your head to explode over this....There has always been matter and energy. This will never, ever change....

Answer 2

Didn't start out light did you..
Based on physics matter is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes forms (this would include energy release or absorbtion to change form).. Using that as a base...
Matter is eternal.. it just changes states..

The universe as we know it in the current state, is changing. Lets say there was a big bang.. It was a huge catalyzed reaction where the matter composing the universe underwent one of those changes. Depending upon what you read, some say the universe is expanding like a rubber band.. so at some point it has to either contract again, and start over, or it snaps, that cycle stops and then who knows.. this is probably a trillions of years cycle (but don't quote me on that..)

If you belive in a God, whose to say that change was not driven by that being to create what we know and understand now. When the end of the world comes and the cycle is complete, that God then starts the cycle over again and begins creating worlds without end and beings in hisown image. This is an easy way to explain why we have geological evidences of creatures being millions of years ago but a theology that states we have been here for a little over 6000 years. Got took matter, reorganized it, and made a new planet wit hthe pieces..

An interesting thought in that is the creation story says that Adam and eve were supposed to multiply and replenish the earth.. How can you replenish what has not been previously endowed with something..??

Answer 3

extremely in accordance to quantum physics, whilst each and every thing boils all the way down to planck measurements (smallest measurements achieveable. Google it. this is effortless to comprehend), power could nicely be created and sustained or destroyed for an somewhat short quantity of time (10 to the skill minus 40 two seconds) So on the ten^(-40 two) secs instantaneous, the full universe became modern in a million planck quantity, this is the smallest achieveable quantity. interior the subsequent instantaneous, the expansion ballooned to grow to be the size of a penny, with the launch of the fields (gravitational, electromagnetic, stable nuclear and susceptible forces), accompanied by utilizing inflation and then expansion as we see immediately. some scientists have faith that the universe will proceed increasing till the celebs and galaxies will pass aside lots that we are going to not see something interior the sky (huge freeze). this is whilst it reaches this decrease, will there be many huge bangs in distinctive empty areas, comparable to our huge bang and new universes would be born, which will persist with an identical course as our modern universe did. So, perhaps our universe too became brought about because of the super rip of a definite, already modern, discern universe which had stretched too lots that it necessary something extra to fill its voids. desire this solutions your question satisfactorily.

Answer 4

When you think about it, anything is possible, but is confounded by the limits of our understanding.

I believe something and everything is so eternal that everything has already happened and existed, and is just repeating itself.

The universe has changed so much, that it is rather impossible to find any beginning to the universe, rather a sequence of changes. For all we know, such fundamental things as physics, may behave in a totally different way, or may not have existed in the past.

We are so small in time and mass that we can only speculate about such things.

Answer 5

If we were to teach a monkey to do calculus, we can spend our entire lifetime teaching it and it will never be able to do it at all. This is because it is beyond the monkey's intellect capabilities. Calculus does not exist in the monkey's realm of reality. The same can happen to humans.

To answer your question, we need knowledge that we will never be able to aquire. The universe we know may not be the only thing that exist, it may be a part of something that we don't know of. So if there is a higher layer of reality that is outside our comprehensible realm reality, we need to be able to understand that in order to explain the origin of our universe.

In other words, our knowledge is just confined to our observable universe. To explain where it all came from, we may need to know and understand the the world that doesn't exist to us, something that is a higher order than our observable universe.

Answer 6

We don't know, and may never know.

We know that about 14 billion years ago, the universe was much, much smaller and much, much hotter. Maybe it actually went to a singularity in space and time, so there is no before. Maybe not. We can only understand physics now back to the first tiny fraction of a second after the explosion, so it's very, very difficult to extrapolate back before that.

Answer 7

The only logical conclusion is that the existence of the universe is infinite. I can't explain the nature of that infinity, but I expect it is something along the lines of the first answer - continuous expansion and contraction, or multiple big bangs/crunches.

Answer 8

Why does it have to be either? You exist. I exist (or so I would have you believe). The universe is here.

And why would either answer be mind-blowing? And why do we have to accept either one?

Answer 9

The universe began about fifteen billion years ago in the big bang.

Answer 10

There is no definitive answer to this...time is time and we have no concept of when it began or when it will end..IF EVER..We also have no idea of the size of the universe/outer space...it goes on ad infinitum.
Best wishes, Mike.