2007-07-03 07:28:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
We don't know.
We know that 14 billion years ago, the universe was much, much smaller and much, much hotter than it is now. We can make reasonable speculations about what happened in the first few minutes. But we really have no idea about the first fraction of a second. Our understanding of particle physics isn't up to the task yet.
2007-07-03 07:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on if this is a paper or a conversation. I am not sure, and I don't even think that scientists are sure. A good start would be energy/matter. Everything in the universe is composed of energy and matter. Energy is also neither created nor destroyed, but more recycled back into its original form.
With the time thing, its just here. You can't change it, just got to go with the flow. The thing I do know about time is that it is a human thing. For many, many years, humans have used time to calculate past, present, and future. Hope this helps.
2007-07-03 14:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by Darkfever 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no explanation for what started the Universe and time. It just happened. Science has no good explanation to answer your question, mainly as a result of the fact that any "theory" about the very beginning of the Universe cannot be shown through science.
2007-07-03 15:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are tons of different theories to the earth and the universe and space. Most likely, there was the Big Bang theory. That is most universally known and accepted. Gravity pulled inward, and with a force unfathomable imploaded. atoms were floating around in space and ......... someone else should take it from here! That's pretty much it, Big Bang â¥
2007-07-03 14:34:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't. Anything that existed before time was wiped out during its creation. [Big Bang] The universe is NOT infinitely old because if it was it would be uniform throughout, which it is not. The only way I can explain its existence is by a big bang followed by a big crunch. it goes boom, expands, slows, falls back in on itself, then explodes again redoing the cycle! Stephen Hawking said that since there would be no trace of anything from before The Big Bang
2007-07-03 14:42:03 · answer #5 · answered by flibbitygibet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time and the universe never "started" it was just always here.
2007-07-03 14:40:03 · answer #6 · answered by Koozie the chemist 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is no agreed upon scientific explanation for what came before the big bang.
2007-07-03 14:44:01 · answer #7 · answered by Lobster 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. We can't. We just theorize.
2007-07-03 14:33:19 · answer #8 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋