what was before the big bang?

Question

and before that..and before that...

Answer 1

Chiara, just because you can't doesn't mean no one can. Are you the smartest person that ever lived, because that's what you set yourself up as.

And to answer your question, this Times article is interesting:
http://www.tomcoyner.com/before_the_big_bang_there_was__.htm
The short answer is that we don't know, YET. We're getting there though.

Answer 2

Since scientists have had enough trouble figuring out what happened at precisely the instant of the "Big Bang", what on Earth makes you think that anyone, anyone would have a clue, a shred of observable evidence of anything before the "Big Bang".

I smell Creationist agenda, or a total lack of interest in doing one's own research prior to asking an unfathomable question. Possibly BOTH. Hmmmmmm?

Answer 3

There is no way to know, since the laws of physics in this universe are all we can go by, and there were no laws of physics before the Big Bang.

Answer 4

interestingly enough, there is no 'before' the big bang. In einsteins general relativity, the universe seems to have been so dense at the big bang, that time was warped in such a way that there was no before the big bang.

Answer 5

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/page/2/

Check out this summary, about halfway down the page. A physicist at Penn State has finally seemed to figure out the math to predict what happened BEFORE our universe existed - and it looks like the collapse of another universe. So if he's right, and it looks good so far but needs to be tested, universes may be cyclical like this - expanding from the big bang and eventually contracting down into a singularity again, only to re-expanding into another universe.

Answer 6

It was postulated by George Lemaitre that before the structure of the Universe there had to be a Created primordial mass.Perhaps( premordial masses).
These premordial masses were created by our Creator.He made the substance of space and the substance of the premordial masses.
Modern theory of Creation =is the Big BaNg theory in which they call the primordial mass a SINGULARITY.

Answer 7

Once Dr. Hawking was asked this question to which he replied "To ask such a question is as meaningless as to ask; What is north of the north pole?"

Brett's response is too close minded as in he considers time something different then space. Obviously we know now that they are one and the same.

Answer 8

The universe existed a long time ago,before the big bang.Actually,this big bang didn't Create all the stars and planets.There were many big bangs.One cannot create everything you know.

Answer 9

well, thts the thing. scientists blieve the big bang started it ALL. so no time, space, meaning that everything was no more than a speck.

Answer 10

Option one: a big 'crunch'

Option two: God asked for a big kleenex

Option three: nothing