The origin of the Universe?

Question

how does something come from nothing?

Answer 1

That's a very big question! Nobody truly knows the origin of the universe.

Answer 2

You are just like 99.99% of the people out there: you are blind.

We are so limited in this small dot that we call Earth that we have still no clue of what is really out there and what the reality is. We are trap in our own space-time, and we can not see beyond that.

And because we are so used to our own space-time, anything that goes out of the “ordinary” becomes right away impossible or unbelievable and is just called imagination. But history has proved already that pretty much anything we can imagine is possible, maybe less probable, but possible.

I can not answer your question because I don’t know the answer, but I can tell you that the grounds you based your question are wrong.

If you can think a little more beyond our space-time and reality, you would see that it is possible to create something from nothing.

Still, the origin of our Universe, and if there is something else “outside” of it as well, is unknown, and worse, is there some kind of intelligent being behind that creation? Or did it just happened out of a incredible coincidence? Or better yet, did the Universe and everything else that could be outside happened because it was predetermined? By whom?

On the other hand, our latest theories say that the Universe wasn’t actually created from “nothing”. All the matter (in form of energy) and time itself was compressed into a one single dot, and then the Big Bang happened. Why? Don’t know. How? Don’t know.

Again, it goes beyond our comprehension as you not only have to imagine all the matter compressed in one single dot that is infinitely small, but also you have to imagine that time did not exist either at that point. That is, if that theory is correct, because other theories claim that time existed before the Big Bang.

The real question to ask is “How and why everything was created?” But up to now, only some religions have an answer for that: God.

But for many people, God will never be an answer until real proof is presented. And at the rate we are going, it is going to take a very long time before we can find the answer, if we ever do.

Answer 3

Contrary to one of the answers I don't think that people who ask this questions are wrong or blind. It's open minded to ask questions. It's also open minded to allow people to ask questions. I agree that it will take a long long time before an answer will be found if science looks in the direction as it was done in the last 30 years.
The central and honest question to all the Big Bang promoters is still unanswered: "How did the universe come from nothing". How can an unbalance of nothing create this much of matter and energy?

Answer 4

In the Bible there are many occasions when it mentions some things being a mystery. Some times it mentions that something was a mystery and is now reveled and on some things there are still mysteries that have yet to be reveled.

The Bible mentions that God created The Heavens and the earth. Heavens being a plural word for: first- the sky above us is a heaven and the second- being the space (with all its stars and planets) between the sky and the third- being the Highest Heaven (the abode of God and the other beings that we cannot see). The second space is the ever expanding universe. Answer GOD.

Answer 5

It`s the big question and physicists concoct all sorts of blurb to try to convince themselves and everyone else that they know. They talk about the cosmic egg and the primeval atom without any hope of explaining the origin off these eggs and atoms. The only person that knows is me and a bloke called Steve and shortly you.
There can be no "before the big bang" but for the purpose of this postulation let look at the situation before the big bang. There was no time and no space and hence no way that any one point could be defined against any other point. The only way anything could exist at all was in reference to itself. The only self referential options for any given point are to rotate and to expand. So a point rotates and expands and there you have the big bang. All of space time consists of the expansion of that intial point in nothing. This expanding spacetime would have experienced tremendous turbulence caused by countless other similar events and this turbulence resulted in eddiies and whirlpools in spacetime that we percieve as matter. The eddies(matter) are stable and hold together whilst spacetime around them continues to expand and hence spacetime is stretched by the matter resisting the expansion of the universe and this is what we percieve as gravity.
There! you got more than you asked for. Can I have my Nobel prize now. How many people ask a question and get the theory of everything handed to `em on a plate?

Answer 6

Happens all the time. Physicists have seen the generation of an electron/positron pair, only to have them annihilate each other immediately after, leaving no gain or loss of energy.

The universe is the same thing, only on a slightly larger scale.

Answer 7

Well, in order to understand the Big Bang you have to have some knowledge of quantum mechanics, string theory etc. You see now there is a very credible theory that the universe formed when two p-branes collided. To understand more research more. I JUST DONT FEEL LIKE EXPLAINING IT!

Answer 8

there is just some guesses for this (mathematical and logical)for instance Edwin hubble discovered that universe is expanding with a high velocity he realized this from the red shift of far galaxies it means that the light of those galaxies is going red in light spectrum so he said that all galaxies are going far so some time maybe they were together in a little massive hot ball and then with an extreme explosion it torn apart called BIG BANG.its one of and the most acceptable theory between scientists and folk.

Answer 9

One word "chance." There was a chance that it could happen and it did. The absolute scope of nothing,nothing,nothing, over and over for all directions became perturbed by an anomaly (singularity) and boom.

Answer 10

All of these responses of "God did it" are hysterical. What would you have said if you lived 3000 years ago? There was no "God" then as you know it today. You would have spouted the same nonsense in relation to some other imaginary deity, or monster, or some other nonsense. You have no scientific facts to back up your arguments, so please refrain from posting anything in the science forums. This is not the "boogey man" or "Easter Bunny" forum. Keep your imaginary friends to yourself. Thanks.