what existed before the big bang?

Question

any theories or ideas?

Answer 1

theres a lot of ideas. i like the theory that before the universe began, there was another, similar universe, that collapsed in on itself, forming an infinitly dense singularity which then exploded in the big bang, forming out current universe which in time will shrink again and repeat the process.

Answer 2

That is the Trillion Dollar question that the Big Bang theory just could not answer.The Reason is that they could not identify the primordial substance composition which they call a singularity. And on what substance was the Singularity hanging on. Today we still cannot identify what kind of substance the moon is hanging on to keeps it suspended.

However; The Big Bang therory is a Creation theory which attempts to unravel the mysteries that our Creator has set.
The Big Bang Theory indirectly implies that the Universe had a begining and has a Creator. The Big Bang theory is by no means the Enemy of the Biblical account of Creation outlined in the Holy Bible in Genesis Chapter one verse One. Which States That our Creator, Created the Substance of the the Heavens(High waters) and the substance of the Earth(Mass).
Never the Less Our Human intelligence could never really completely Understand the process and the designed control systems behind the Creation of the Universe.
We can only guess and speculate till we are blue in the face.
As Clint Eastwood once said ."Man must know his limitations"

Answer 3

Time as we know it didn't exist. However, a vacuum (utterly empty space with no point of reference, making size or distance meaningless) can be termed a false vacuum if a potential for energy could possibly exist. Scientists refer to this false vacuum as a scalar field of potential energy. Applying quantum indeterminacy and what we know about virtual particles that indeed are created out of nothing, one theory has it that in this scalar field an energy imbalance ocurred where the field at a certain point did not measure "zero." That is the thread that cosmology theorists like to pull to unravel time. This energy imbalance caused space to unfurl in three dimensions, while seven other dimensions curled up smaller than a subatomic particle, yet it is those other dimensions, in theory, that give the quark, the electron, and the photon its vibrational string properties. Quarks go into making protons, electrons define atoms, and photons, light, defined the electromagnetic spectrum. All together the universe yielded four forces: The electromagentic force (light), the strong nuclear force (which holds protons together in an atom), the weak nuclear force (nuclear decay), and gravity.

As space unfurled at time zero, the arrow of time arbitrarily moved in a forward direction.

The amazing thing is that high energy physics can explain the atomic interactions all the way back to 10^-35th of a second (the Planck time). From there it's just plain physics. Once hydrogen nuclei were able to capture electrons, about 380,000 years after time began, photons were free to travel and there was light. We have detected this background radiation, the initial light of the early universe, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. So Big Bang Theory keeps getting more and more confirmation that (1) the universe is expanding, and (2) it expanded from a singularity. That singularity is theorized to have been the result of an energy imbalance in a valse vaccum. Our universe may be just one of many that are created this way. There is a lot of theory on the subject, but too much to go into here. I suggest "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of the Cosmos," both by Briane Greene, to get you started in thinking about such things.

Answer 4

The big crunch.

The universe is thought to go in a circle of "birth" (i.e. the big bang) and "death" (i.e. the big crunch). The big crunch was a similar universe, just like ours, but gravity collapsed the universe to form an infinitely dense point. From that point we get the big bang.

This is just a theory though. And it's not important in our universe either because what existed before has no consequence on what happens now. Simple answer is we don't know!

And somebody asked where all the matter came from? Matter is another form of energy - that's where it came from.

edit: writing God in an answer is not a proper answer. You might as copy and paste that answer onto every single question if you're going to be lame.

Answer 5

Hello "M"

Isn't it interesting that this question gets asked two or three times per day? It seems that the more that people ask it, the more weird the answers get. Most interesting is that while people say the words, most have no clue as to what they are asking.

The average life span of a human being is, say, one hundred years. The modern day scientists have used various technologies to date the Earth at around 5 Billion Years of Age. Mankind has only been dated back as far as possibly 10,000 years in time, and for the majority of that time was blissfully ignorant regarding some of the finer points of Outer Space. Indeed, only now are we (mankind) learning the first few crumbs of information about it.

And, for some reason people desire to know, and ask in Yahoo Questions and Answers, "what existed before the beginning?" It is almost as if someone sweeping the street,
or cleaning tables at the saloon knows the answer and has yet to step forward and clue us all in on the big secret...

There are lots of theories about this, and with a bag full of theories you still cannot buy a decent meal. Please pardon my skepticism, but haven't you got anything better to do with your time than to chase non-existant answers?

Let me give you a for instance... Please visit
http://takahashiamerica.com
When you get to that site,
go to their gallery 1 and their gallery 2 of photos
and view what is out there in this Universe.
You can learn about these things right now and gain
some definite positive information.
Before the beginning...you will learn nothing and gain little.

Answer 6

Scientists do not know, but the general theory is that a very small amount of really dense matter exploded in what we know as the "big bang." The debris that was ejected from this explosion eventually coalesced into what we know as the universe.

A number of scientists reject the idea of God or some supreme being, in favor of the big bang theory creating the universe. While I believe that the big bang did occur, one can always ask... "so where did the really dense stuff that exploded come from?" Who created it, or put it there before the explosion. I think that God put it there, making the 2 theories (existence of God and the big bang) totally compatible with each other.

Answer 7

I see God as a primary answer to a question that doesn't exist. Explain to me for all you so called Christians that refer to genesis as a solution. If God created the Heavens in a day and the earth was yet to be created then by who's watch are you going by? A day to God could mean a light year. Here's one for you, if God is all and there is nothing outside of God then where are you right now? How about this, God is purposely naive to your existence due to the fact that it would make this dimension a reality. Maybe just maybe, this is a, "what if thought" that conflicted with God's thought and because there is no dualism in God a big bang was created and then collapsed on itself as though nothing happen. It my folks is all an illusion created by a thought that never existed because God never made it a reality due to imperfection. God cannot create anything imperfect and we cannot create anything everlasting including this dream we call a universe.

Answer 8

This is sort of a theory I came up with- along with the rest of the world no doubt. We could be in a series of big bang and big crunch- at a certain point after a big bang, the universe decreases its rate of expansion, and eventually stops expanding, and then begins a contraction, resulting in a crunch, resulting in another explosive bang. Now you could pose the question- what happened before this cycle of bang and crunch? Heh. Good question.

Answer 9

I think a better question is how many times has the big bang occured..has it being going on and continue go on forever or was there a start point and will there be an end point...no one knows that answer I'm afraid..except one.

Answer 10

I doubt we'll never know. I think it's useless to think about because even if we figured it out and could tell when our universe would be destroyed, we couldn't do anything about some a tremendous cosmic event. We should worry about more important things, like how me might be able to move to the Moon or Mars when we start to melt on this planet. If you want to believe that humans are not causing global warming, then that's fine, but the Earth is UNQUESTIONABLY warming. It's not so much important why as it is what the **** we are going to do with 7 or so billion people when the only livable regions are outside of the tropics. Here's a thought...the earth gets smaller as you move in latitude and there's a shitton of people that live around the equator. Where are we going to shove all those people? Anyway, space travel is one answer and those that want to explore the cosmos should be dealing with that rather than what happened an infinite amount of time ago. My two cents anyway.