A milllion millionth of a second before the big bang, was there nothing / a perfect vacuum & why did it happen

Question

A scientist on the radio told me the energy from the vacuum fired the big bang, but energy is a bit like matter so where did the energy come from, and when?

Answer 1

We can't know what there was before the Big Bang, or what triggered it, because we can only probe up to a few microseconds before (and they were important!)

But, the popular theory was that there wasn't anything before the big bang. No space, and therefore nothing for a vacuum to exist in. It's possible then, that a whole bunch of matter and a whole bunch of anti-matter suddenly came into being - this could happen as long as everything happened in pairs and momentum was always conserved - ie. every matter particle produced was one of a pair with an antimatter particle with opposite momentum (and opposite in every other conserved quantity).

However, if that was what happened, why is the universe predominantly matter - where did all the antimatter go? This is one of the fundamental questions particle physicists are working on answering right now.

Answer 2

This question leads the mind into an unfamiliar zone where the very reason for our understanding of the physical universe was forged alongside the creation of the universe. As the way we reason and understand things is extracted by our observation of a normal physical world, the world made of atoms. But there is a world beyond the atomic level, as all atoms are made of sub-atomic particles, constituting a minitisimal world where rules of a normal physical world do not apply, where normal observation fails see a reason for things happening.

At a quantum level nature becomes completely unpredictable and quirky where particles pop up out of nowhere and where there is no certainty, or line of logic, as we know it, to follow the course of things taking place.

This is the place where reality can only be understood when conceptualised, where physical science assume pure Mathematical form and then delves into philosophical debate of big questions about the creation and about the purpose of creation, but these questions find no answer leading the mind in a constant state of meditation of an inquisitive wonder about all things before the creation of the worlds and after all things have run out of time and space to exist.

The universe is not all that meets the eye. It is not all physically observable as a scientist might like see. The universal has dimensions that may be our modern scientific approaches cannot take into consideration as that would the matter of going beyond the reason of systemising the body of our scientific knowledge that we depend upon.

Answer 3

10-43 second is how far back in time scientists have tracked the retreat of the galaxies to the big bang, here they were stumped because all of the physical laws could not determine what was there before that. Even the famous E=MC2 had no meaning because the only part of the equation that was present was the E, matter did not exist so the E was unquantifiable. Why has no mathematician found the significance of this? It seems to me this 10-43 second was the life span of the singularity before the first law of physics, thermodymanics came into being.

Answer 4

A vacuum is a dimensioned area that is empty of normal matter, however it is full of quantum ripples, bits of other co-existing dimensions pokeing through & dissapearing. A vacuum could only exist after the dimensions of space/time were created. Thoughts are that the energy to create everything has infact been borrowed, it will have to be paid back, its called the big crunch!

Answer 5

Theoretically, no longer something occurred. N-O-T-H-I-N-G. no longer even vacuum existed, nor time. basically one ball of power existed, that created the massive Bang. After the massive Bang, each and every thing started. Hydrogen and Helium have been created first (i think of). Non-theoretically, the possibilities are high countless. in all risk life could have existed till now the massive Bang, and the beings created a ball of power that wiped out their lives and created ours? perhaps somebody with helpful magic summoned a ball of power? perhaps the ball created itself? presently, there is not any real answer to this so the respond could be constrained on your mind's eye. For now.

Answer 6

The whole universe is flooded with a "false vacuum," filled with something close to dark energy. Eventually, wuantum perturbations will cause a higgs field to turn on in this false vaccuum to create a bubble of energy,, which later becomes mass. This "bubble" is the big bang, and as it expands, our universe grows to what it ius today.

Answer 7

It is certainly not a million millionth (10^-12) of a second. The smallest time we can measure is Planck time (5.4 × 10^−44 s) we know what happened after this but not before.

Answer 8

Since everything was created at the exact moment of the big bang (according to the big-bang theory), including all of our physical laws, we cannot even begin to guess what was their before.
Another way to look at it is to say let us find the point of the big-bang. But since all of the light was created in the big-bang and started expanding outwards, and since nothing can move faster then light, we have no way of catching up with this initial expansion of light.

Answer 9

There was not time before the big bang. Time began then. The questin of what happened before tht, from a scientific point of view, makes no sense. Nothing came before- there was "nowhen" for it to exist.

The big bang does not have a cause and accodrding to qunatum physics, it does not need one.

Answer 10

A huge black hole that had, over time, swallowed most of the contents of an alternate universe that was in the contraction phase of its natural cycle, and broke thru the spacetime there into this spacetime (the Big Bang) and expelled its contents into this particular spacetime like sand thru the hourglass.