I know about the big bang but where did everything before that come from. Why is there anything? Where did it come from? I'm asking here so I don't get stupid religous answers.
2007-07-27 17:31:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thanks for a great question, specifically staying clear of religious rigmarole.
Here is a possible logical answer that neither depends on faith nor on evidence..... pure reasoning, although necessarily speculative.
Either everything must have come from nothing or everything must have been there all the time.... because if anything came form something, that something must have come from something else and that leads to an eternal chain which is what an ever dynamic Continuum is. It is indeed possible that there is no beginning and no end, just a continuum and our concept of a beginning and an end is merely the illusion arising from the ever present phenomenon of change... every change means a beginning as well as an end.
If it is not a Continuum, then it must all have come from Nothingness. Now, nothingness is not something we can experience... the best we can think of is empty, but that actually is vacuum space. It does seem impossible for us to imagine how anything can come out of nothing. A bit of maths can help us try visualize this possibility. Suppose this Nothingness is equal to zero. We know that zero is also equal to an identical plus added to the identical minus. It is possible that several pluses and several minuses result in zero when all of them are summed up. In the same way, it is perhaps possible that Nothingness is merely manifesting in huge different pluses and different minuses which in totality amount to zero..... the ever present phenomenon of change is continuously altering the population of the pluses and minuses, but all the time, the sum remains zero. In other words, all that appear to exist are actually the 'dynamic zero sum' ..... which means that existence is a mere illusion created by a dynamic zero sum manifestation of nothingness.
At the end of it all though, any amount of logic, reasoning and imagination seems to still leave us in the darkness!!
2007-07-27 18:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all I admire your question and the bit about "stupid religious answers" was good too. This is what no one ever talks about, where was the big bang and what was before that and that's what has been bugging me since I was three when I asked my dad: "when does time end and how big is space." He said time never ends and space goes on forever and I got really upset and have been ever since.
I'm sure quantum physics has some fancy explanation
that doesn't really answer your question, it just poses more questions. The best I can tell you is that its like a loop in all directions at once and the beginning is the end.
My personal feeling about it is that we as mortal, physical beings have two different receptors in our brains, one for space and one for time so it is we who separate them whereas they are really one and the same in a way that we just don't have sensory organs to perceive. If we could see them as a single thing as it really is, all these questions would be explained or perhaps explanation itself would be obsolete. There seems to be a whole big piece of reality that we have no way of understanding because of what and when we are. Or maybe these concepts only exist in our minds and the properties they possess are merely those that we impart to them.
2007-07-28 00:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was no "before" to compare it to. The universe was not created in time, but simultaneously with time. The universe did not just simply fill a preexisting void.
The matter of the universe came from energy. No one knows where this energy came from. All we can do is speculate.
2007-07-28 01:29:50 · answer #3 · answered by James 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will never know in this lifetime.
You will die many millions of years before scientists can possibly begin to factually speculate.
Your ONLY hope is that God exists and that you have an afterlife and that God tells you and that you are open-minded enough to accept God's answer.
If there is no God then you will NEVER know.
A little frustrating, huh?
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2007-07-28 00:52:51 · answer #4 · answered by All The Answers 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stupid religious answers? Firstly you should consider not asking stupid questions. If you do not wish to find a religious explanation why don't you read about the evolution of the world based on scientific findings and other studies which can inform you of the first groups on this world! I could tell you need some education when you ask such stupid question!
2007-07-28 00:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by snrz 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Your mind is partially closed so you will never understand the question has no answer and that this fact IS the answer.
2007-07-28 02:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by naniannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious or not, humans are to dumb too ever know. Don't even think about it. Waste of our current physical reality.
2007-07-28 00:37:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Only you can answer that question to your own satisfaction.....go within to find your answer........
2007-07-28 00:55:10 · answer #8 · answered by Jack O 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋