So, you believe the Big Bang Theory?

Question

Then answer me this.........What came before the big bang??
(I personally believe in the Big-Bang theory, but would like to know what you believe came before it)

Susan S - Your god gave people free will and their own mind. So stop trying to force your ideas onto us please. And let us discuss what we believe is true, after all, we are allowed to believe he doesnt exist.

Ok then believers. Where did your 'god' come from. It cant have just appeared. And stop trying to tell us that you are right!!! Am i saying that you are all wrong and that religion is a load of bull? NO!!!! i am asking a question for thoes who BELIEVE the Big-Bang theory, so but out. Pleae

Answer 1

This is much too complicated to answer briefly but if you check into string theory you will see how it leads to the possibility that there are and always have been many universes which exist on a sort of membrane and if two of them collide it creates a big bang which creates a new universe and this goes on forever since time is relevant and has no meaning except to us.

Answer 2

I am an agnostic and no, I do not believe the big bang theory. This is most likely because I don't have sufficient knowledge of the field. However, I believe that the big bang theory could not have happened because it defies so many rules and laws that I have learned through physics. There isn't any way I can see that everything in the universe could have been compacted into one point, one atom and without any external assistance, expand rapidly to the universe as it is today. I think that this "theory" was created in order to explain a happening (the beginning of the universe and time) that people can't figure out. People can't image the existence of a possibility that the universe could have been indefinite, without a beginning or an end and thus a theory was created with what I consider bogus evidence in order to satisfy the people's crave of an answer to a concept they refuse to grasp.

Answer 3

God, big bang, whatever - no matter how you slice it, one of the following mind-boggling things must be true:

a) Something spontaneously appeared from nothingness w/o anything to cause it.

b) something always existed without having been created

c) an unbroken chain of cause/effect goes back infinitely

It could just as easily be matter / energy and the universe, or some sort of creator - it really doesn't matter, because all 3 cases pretty much defy comprehension if not logic.

If it's a creator - examining the creation and discovering how it works and the mechanisms by which is is made do not somehow preclude the creator. If it's a spontaneous universe, then that does not demand a creator be behind it either. If it's an infinite cycle of one thing leading to the next, then god or universe are more or less just links in the chain, none being particularly more special than the other by their position in the chain alone....

Stop bickering: religion is important to many people, and I respect their faith to a certain point. Science involves more faith than you atheists would be comfortable admitting to yourselves. And you religious people out there: If the bible says feathers fall slower than rocks because they're lighter, and science proves it's because of air resistence - tough luck, whoever wrote it in the bible was wrong, but that doesn't mean god's not there - it just means we know a little more about his creation than we once did.

Answer 4

It may be a meaningless question. The Big Bang was the creation of both space and time. If time didn't exist, then there is no such thing as before the Big Bang. In any event, everything we know scientifically is based on the laws of nature. Those laws cease to exist at a singularity (the Big Bang) so wondering about what was "before" it is like wondering about God. Nobody really knows or can know.

Having said that, there are a number of respected scientists with different ideas like bubble universes. Maybe our universe came about due to a fluctuation in the quantum vacuum of a parent universe.

But I don't think we can ever _prove_ where we came from.

Answer 5

the big bang theory is a big dud. If every last bit of matter was condensed to a singularity, then when it exploded (in a frictionless environment) every piece that was blown from the origin should have remained in its trajectory forever. Nothing should be gravatationally bound to anything else. Assuming the expansion was, and should have been, traveling faster than any debris. But i've also been told that "nothing" exploded and created everything, which is retarded.

Answer 6

Before the big bang theory there was the "god did it" theory but only ignorant people clings to that one today.

Then there was the "static universe theory" which said that the universe has always been as we see it today. The stars or the galaxies don´t move, there is no expansion or contraction. Even Einstein supported this Newtonian notion even though his own calculations showed that the universe was in motion, either expanding or contracting. He manipulated his own equation by putting in a "cosmological constant" to stop things from moving. He later admitted, as visual observations gave more and more proof for the big bang, that by doing so he had made the biggest blunder of his career.

Answer 7

my young lady you asked the question if you believe in the big bang theory and people are being kind to answer you .i believe you came down very hard on Susan she was seemingly stating a answer to what you asked what every ones opinion was...firmly i believe the heavens and the earth was made by our creator sooner or later you to will become a christian possibly someday in your life..no bang here sorry

Answer 8

The general concept is the Big Crunch theory in which all the mass of the universe gets sucked into a singularity that is contracting until it reaches a point of mass fusion which causes the Big Bang to happen.

Answer 9

There are quite a lot of hypothesis. Some of them find their origin in string theory. Some scientists say it's more like philosophy, but still they're going to try to find (indirect) evidence. As far as I know there is not one theory scientists agree on, but I'll give you an example of an interesting one and some background information.
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/feb/cover/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/the-biggest-thing-in-physics

Answer 10

Just because I (or scientists) don't know what came before the Big Bang doesn't mean the Big Bang didn't occur.
There are too many observations that fit the theory of the Big Bang and inflation for it to be completely incorrect.