When The Big Bang Created Time and Space and Planets And Stuff, We All Know That It Was Gases That Created The Big Bang, But What Was There Before The Big Bang?
2007-07-11 09:24:54 · 15 answers · asked by Smurf 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hey man, you need to be smoking something to think about that!! What a great question. Really in depth!! I have no idea, maybe it was just as you said, gases and stuff all living and swirling together then had a big fight and BANG it happened.
2007-07-11 09:35:47 · answer #1 · answered by Su John 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is possible that there was not even gas that created the 'Big Bang'.
In fact, it is even possible that there was not even a BEFORE, before the Big Bang.
In our universe, it appears that the flow of time is a direct consequence of the presence of matter and energy. If there were no matter or energy before the Big Bang, then there also was no time (hence, no "before").
The Big Bang is often described as an explosion, but that is a poor image. We are accustomed at seeing explosions from the outside and, for us, an explosion explodes into the surrounding area.
"Before" the Big Bang, it may be that there was nothing, not even an empty space containing nothing. Then, maybe there was a local fluctuation (much smaller versions are known to occur within the "empty" regions of our universe). This gave a singularity (meaning a volume of zero) containing some energy. If you put anything in a volume of 0, then you get an infinite density.
Then, whatever it is must expand. Given an infinite density to begin with, this is equivalent to an infinite temperature. Anything that is "heated" to extremely high temperature will expand very fast.
2007-07-11 09:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by Raymond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, but an expansion OF space, which happened everywhere. Physicists do not know what happened in the first instant after the Big Bang, known as Planck Era, so knowing what happened before is slightly impossible. For those that say there was nothing, there had to be something for this to happen. Remember the atom was meant to be the smallest particle, until they cut it open and a whole load of smaller particles came out???!! Earth was flat kinda stuff??!! My thought was that there was extreme heat (gases) and extreme cold and when the two met there was a reaction (abit like a thunder storm)
2007-07-12 22:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows what happened before the big bang, or even immediately after it. This is because the force of gravity can not be quantitated in terms of other forces like electricity and magnetism. This is also why nobody knows what the inside of a "black hole" is like. When physicists preform calculations involving enormous amounts of gravity the answers jump to infinity, and infinity can not be quantitated. When the "big bang" occured, all the matter and energy in the universe was supposedly confined to an area smaller than a grape. This object would also have had the mass of the entire universe, so untill gravity can be calculated precisely, nobody can answer this question.
String theory is the latest attempt to unify all the forces. It predicts there are 11 dimensions and universes of higher dimensions can exist right along side our 3 dimensional universe. One guess about the origin of our universe is it was the collision of three dimensional space with space of another dimension. The exact point of contact created an enormous amount of matter and energy, which then expanded from this point into the universe as we know it today.
2007-07-11 09:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by Roger S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no "before the big bang". That is when time began. So asking what happened before the big bang is like asking what is north of the north pole. There is, by definition, no point further north.
We usually think of time as flowing linearly from past to future so it is very hard to picture time as having a begining, but physics says that it did.
2007-07-11 09:46:23 · answer #5 · answered by Jeffrey K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recent results out of Penn State suggest that our universe emerged from the collapse of a previous universe.
The big bang did not create planets. That was billions of years after the big bang.
2007-07-11 09:33:58 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to m-theory, there are parallel universes, this universe is one of the millions of universes out there, each slightly different. for example here someone famous died in an accident and in the next universe the person didnt. the idea of parallel universes has been taken seriously by many physicists and according to the theory this universe was created by 2 universes hitting each other at one point.
read parallel universes by michio kaku, very detailed
2007-07-11 09:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by razor_303 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
2007-07-11 09:41:33 · answer #8 · answered by Gram 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We
don't
know.
That simple. Physics that we know of break down at the barrier of the big bang. We don't have physics to understand that state.
2007-07-11 09:30:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have to face the fact that we are here and before that nothing existed.
What could be in nothing?
A potential that had the ability to be triggered.
,producing a single space-time pulse that evolved into our universe and us.
2007-07-12 04:17:51 · answer #10 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋