I just wanted to know how people think the Universe came to be if you don't belive in God? I would think the big band theory would be it. particles that were here exploded and transformed into what we have now. How did those particles get there if no one put them there? Something can't come from nothing?
2007-06-22 14:38:49 · 23 answers · asked by Oh la la! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sorry I spelt big bang wrong
2007-06-22 14:49:00 · update #1
when I said something can't come from nothing I meant matter can't come from nothing God is not matter
2007-06-22 14:51:59 · update #2
matter and energy aren't the same thing
2007-06-22 14:53:03 · update #3
The 'big band theory'?
Wow, I didn't know Benny Goodman was there during the creation of the universe.
2007-06-22 14:42:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would be the big bang theory.
The big bang started as a singularity, a state where the normal laws of physics no longer apply.
Also, it was not an explosion IN space - like a huge bomb - that spread the existing matter though the existing space. It was an explosion OF space where all the matter/energy was compressed into a very compact version of the universe which then expanded, like being on the surface of a balloon as it is blown up. This allowed the energy to spread and eventually 'condense' into matter and form the universe as we see it.
Where did that energy come from? We do not know. There are some proposals that are starting to hang together enough to be worth trying experiments on, the main contender being M theory, which deals with an 11 dimensional multiverse which would constantly be spawning different universes of which ours is only one in billions of billions of billions.
How and when did the multiverse get there? I do not know, but when time is just another dimension amongst 10 others 'when' becomes a meaningless question.
If something can not come from nothing then where did God come from?
Obviously at some point something must come from 'nothing' whether it is an incredibly complex god, or a relatively simple
multiverse.
If God is eternal and infinite, then why can we not have an eternal and infinite -but non sentient - multiverse?
2007-06-22 21:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know, but we'll keep looking. The Big Bang theory only explains what happened after the universe was created.
There are clues to how a universe could come to be. We now see that you can get something from nothing, as long as the net energy is zero. And we've determined that the energy of the universe minus the potential energy of the universe's gravity is as close to zero as you can measure. But we don't know if there is a multiverse beyond our own.
In any case, pat answers like "God did it" don't satisfy us, because it doesn't really answer the question.
2007-06-22 21:40:32 · answer #3 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a bit more complicated than that. It was an expansion, not an explosion. There were the most rudimentary particles for about 10,000 years until it cooled enough to form basic elements, mostly hydrogen. Look up pair-production to see how we get matter from energy. And Brane theory and M-theory to see where we think it may have come from. It's all testable, eventually - though we're still developing the technology to test it. Check back in a few years.
2007-06-22 21:42:42 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why the same question. This is not a real question in the sense that you already think you know the answer. It is not even an important question. The important question is how you are living your life now. Are you contributing to it by creating more love and compassion or are you trying to divide it more by attacking those who don't believe in your god?
And you are right. Something can't come from nothing. Something that was not created or caused, cannot create nor cause so logically there is no god.
2007-06-22 21:59:12 · answer #5 · answered by Jim San Antonio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you are a theist, then you do believe that something can come from nothing. Your god. And if you believe there was no beginning to your god, then you believe the same as I believe there was no beginning to the universe. Matter can exist as both matter and energy, so the universe that we see now could be vastly different than what it once was, and there is no reason to believe that it has not always existed. Just simply in a different phase.
2007-06-22 21:42:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's possible that the universe always existed in some form or another.
One thing is for certain--assuming some supreme intelligence/complexity without any evidence is unnecessary (it adds an extra variable for no good reason), and frankly absurd for that reason. We have QUITE a way to go, and an IMMEASURABLY large number of natural hypotheses to rule out before it makes sense to even CONSIDER supernatural ones.
On top of that, if we were to ever reach that point where we literally have no natural hypotheses left, then we're REALLY stuck, because now we CAN'T rule anything else out! It's patently impossible for a person to be able to say that something is one of aliens/ghosts/gods, for example, and NOT the others. As humans, we don't have that capability. So at BEST, it's theoretically possible (highly improbable considering what incredible progress we've made and success we've had with the meager number of hypotheses (compared with the total possible number) we've made) that we run out of explanations, but then it's a stalemate, because it's truly impossible to prove supernatural agency. That's outside of the realm of science.
2007-06-22 21:41:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow! The Big Band Theory! So it was Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and the like that created the universe? That is so cool!
Seriously - you don't need to believe in a god to believe that the universe was created. They aren't required for each other. Some people believe that although fantastic, it was still natural - as I do.
2007-06-22 21:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. A very interesting, entertaining, and well written book about the workings of the universe.
2007-06-22 21:43:48 · answer #9 · answered by Colonel Mustard 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All evidence points to the basic elements of the universe always existing, much easier to swallow than an infinitely complex creator creating itself.
The fact is, something had to exist without creation. I know it is hard for humans to swallow, but it is the way it had to be. And the scientific explanations have much more evidence and credibility than the thousands of explanations religions have attempted to provide, and they are getting stronger all the time.
2007-06-22 21:42:27 · answer #10 · answered by Starvin' Marvin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋