2007-06-22 06:00:19 · 6 answers · asked by Bebe 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The big bang was not an explosion. It was an expansion. There is an important difference.
Please look up Brane theory, M-theory, and pair-production for current theories as to what happened. These are testable theories. Check back in a few years.
Just because we don't know how it happened yet doesn't mean we won't even know, and CERTAINLY doesn't mean that your favorite deity did it instead.
2007-06-22 06:09:43 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There's many problems with this view of "nothingness exploding" .. mostly because of our limited perception...
The concept of time is difficult to grasp. The question presupposes that there must be a cause for time and the claim that there was a "before" or "cause" for time is illogical and incoherent (since before and after only make sense within time).
Hawking proposed that time is spherical, and therefore your question is a bit like an explorer wondering "What happens at the end of the earth?"
Also there are theories of parallel universes, multiple dimensions, and the like (colliding branes, m-theory)...which are currently speculative as is the God hypothesis...
2007-06-22 13:13:04 · answer #2 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No that would be ridiculously naive.
Instead I believe that what we see as space/time matter/energy is not fundamental and is based on eternal mathematics.
When you watch a DVD movie does the start of the movie explode from nothingness, of course not, yet the movie has a beginning and an end. Time in the movie is not fundamental what exists are the bits of information on the DVD which represent the movie not the apparent space/time mass and energy illusion represented in the movie.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Einstein
2007-06-22 13:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No... "nothingness" doesn't exist, it's illogical. Everything is caused by something/s else, or arises due to something else.
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2007-06-22 13:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe it makes any difference, it's here today deal with it.
2007-06-22 13:12:06 · answer #5 · answered by Wordsmith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Pretty silly question.
2007-06-22 14:46:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋