A question from someone who believes in the big bang.?

Question

If something can't come from nothing where did the original sphere from which the universe was compressed come from? And can you cite me some sources of proof?

Thanks.

Serious question btw.

I have been asked to cite proof ZERO times.

Why would i need to? Who cares what you have to say :D. Unless your helping me then i care..

The sphere thing came from the theory.

And This is a serious question. :D i never said a god or goddess created anything HAHAHAHA

Answer 1

They're doing an experiment in a large underground facility somewhere where they will attempt to collide two particles together and if their theory is correct the two colliding particles will create new matter and some of that matter may or may not be matter that are completely new and never seen by man before. In a nutshell, they will try and reenact the big bang.

Answer 2

Colin This is one very big question that modern Cosmology has yet to answer. What caused the Big Bang. The best theory I have heard, of many, uses Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to get around something being created out of nothing. The Uncertainty Principle basically says that energy can be spontaneously created for short amounts of time. Typically under the planck time, around 10^ -33 seconds. It is this mechanism that allows for virtual particles and their ilk to be created. It is also used to explain the Casimir Effect. So anyway, imagine if you will that before the Big Bang absolutely nothing existed, no time, no space, no mass. According to Heisenberg energy can be spontaneously created and so it did. Enough energy to create the Universe.

This is purely theoretical and conjectural and something I happen to favour, this does not mean that it is scientific fact. For this to become scientific fact, one would have to be able to calculate the parameters of the universe from first principles and this is not the case at this time, but perhaps we will be able to do it some day.

As to the nature of things made out of nothing? Virtual particles are used by Particle Physicists to explain how forces are transmitted between particles. So, the world around you is a direct result of the interactions between particles created out of nothing.

As to the fate of the Universe, will it return to nothing, we have more information to guess what will happen than about the beginning. The overall mass of the Universe creates a gravitational attraction. This attraction has been slowing down the expansion of the Universe since its beginning. There are 3 basic possible scenarios.

1. Insufficient mass means insufficient gravity to stop the expansion. The Universe expands forever.

2. Enough mass to stop expansion and cause the Universe to collapse back onto itself. What happens after the collapse occurs is conjectural.

3. There is just enough mass to stop expansion but not cause collapse. The Universe expands asymptotically (the expansion tends to zero as the time elapsed becomes infinite).

For various reasons case 3 is thought to be the most likely. I would suggest reading the book "The New Physics" ed Paul Davies for a good overview on modern Cosmology. Alternatively look through Ned Wrights tutorial for more details. If you are into Tensor Maths I would also recommend "Gravity, the first 300 years" edited by Hawking and Israel for an in depth look at Big bang cosmologies.

Answer 3

Who says it came from nothing?

The Big Bang is the theory of what happened just after the universe came to be. It says nothing about what happened before. There are some theories about what, if anything, existed before this universe, but we just don't have any evidence yet.

There could have been a larger megaverse that the universe was created in, or there could have been nothing, or perhaps the word "before" really doesn't apply outside of this universe, if there is an outside.

And who says you can't get something from nothing?

You can get something from nothing, as long as you also get a negative something to balance out the conservation of matter and energy. If you look into virtual particles and Hawking radiation, you'll see what I mean. There have been some measurements of the universe that indicate that all the heat energy in the universe minus all the potential energy from gravitation attraction is a net zero, which would mean that it doesn't violate any conservation laws either.

Answer 4

I think your perceptions of the Big Bang are a bit off. There wasn't an "original sphere". We commonly refer to it as the "primordial atom" simply for sake of convenience, but when you consider that all matter, energy, space, and time was folded in on a single infinitely small geometric point, any conventional method of envisioning it kind of falls short of the mark.

Nobody knows yet. Scientists at CERN are coming close to replicating the conditions that existed seconds after the Big Bang (albeit on a very small scale) and are learning a great deal about how the four forces interact with one another. But until we have a total solid understanding of quantum physics, we cannot answer the question of where the primordial atom came from. The Grand Unifying Theory has been rather elusive, I'm afraid.

Answer 5

It was here. Matter/energy may not be created or destroyed. When the universe collapsed it will compress on itself and then 'bang' for billions of years. it took us 13.7 B to get to this point. Most guesses say it will go to 80-100 billion before it starts to collapses again and starts the whole process over.

Energy can be converted to matter and matter can be converted to energy.

Answer 6

There is no reason to believe that the mass-energy was not eternal or that it was a sphere. Who say something can't come from nothing? The conditions before the universe are different from the conditions we experience

Where are the sources for your assertions?

We don't know, but you claim to know things that are not part of the theory.

Answer 7

God spoke. Words are vibrations. String Theory says that everything is made of vibrating strings. Coincidence? I think not. Anyway, those strings created a quantum singularity which overbalanced, churning out as much space and time as the energy of His Voice provided. Incidentally, about 97% of that energy cancelled out right at the start.

Answer 8

Well, there are a number of possibilities, but the laws of physics do not say something cannot come from nothing -- matter appears to come in and out of existence all the time, although it could be an observational problem.

Anyway, here is Stephen Hawking's presentation on that:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/stream.php?type=real&webcastid=19171

Answer 9

God spoke the command and it was. All things we know came to be in a matter of 6 days. Anything is possible with God including His complex creation that we experience and are a part of every day.

Answer 10

In time, it is believed that the universe will implode in on itself and return to the state in which the Big Bang was created. This is called the Big Crunch. My theory: The matter came from the last Big Crunch in an infinite series of explosions/implosions.