2007-09-03 16:47:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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2007-09-03 17:18:40 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That there was nothing before the Big Bang is an illogical inference from the theory. The Big Bang is a reference point based on the science that we understand: the components of the[our] universe are all related to the Big Bang. What came before and what caused it are still unclear.
Think about the number line. Zero is a reference point; before you understand integers, nothing left of the zero makes any sense.
2007-09-04 00:09:24 · answer #2 · answered by john s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was very likely a fluctuation (a very big one, but possible nonetheless).
The "vacuum" of space is full of these fluctuations. Most of the time, a fluctuation only produces an electron and an anti-electron (also called positron): they exist for a very brief period of time and then cancel each other out (matter and anti-matter). On some rare occasions, they will produce a muon and an anti-muon. On even more rare occasions, proton and anti-proton. And so on, with the probability getting a lot smaller for bigger particles. But the probability never gets to zero, not even for a whole "universe" worth of energy.
Keep in mind that this energy was created in a "singularity", a volume of zero. Does not matter how dense the material, if you get a zero volume of it, it does not cost very much.
It is this fluctuation mechanism that provides the material explanation to Hawking's prediction that black holes could emit energy: in the empty space near the black hole, pairs of electron-positron particles are constantly being created. Every once in a while, one particle will fall into the black hole while the other will not. Therefore, our universe gains a particle, meaning that the black hole must lose the equivalent mass.
Looks like "nothingness" is very unstable. Who knew?
2007-09-04 00:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is embedded in the fabric of reality an intentionality, or force, that biases reality in favor of generativity, elaboration, refinement of form, and self-sustainability.
It is this bias that makes the cosmos tend to become complex and observable even though it started with nothing. One of the characteristics of such a reality is that when there is "nothing," as in the beginning, that state of "nothingness" tends to be highly unstable.
With the passage of time, that instability can become explosively intense. When that happens, you get a Big Bang, every time.
2007-09-04 11:36:35 · answer #4 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We need to define what is knowable, and what is not.
If we define the Universe as the space-time continuum in which we find ourselves, we can only know what is inside, and what has taken place since it began. Anything else isoutside of our Universe, and if we find out what is outside our Universe, it automatically becomes part of our Universe.
The Big Bang does not speculate on what caused the formation of the Universe -- that is left to theologians and philosophers. What it does do, and very well, is explain how matter, energy, and space formed, and how this matter, energy, and space developed into the Universe that we see.
As a theory, it can only explain observations made in this Universe. It cannot, and does not attempt, to explain conditions that existed outside of our Universe prior to its existence.
2007-09-04 00:06:19 · answer #5 · answered by Stephen S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think there was nothing to cause the big "bang"
2007-09-04 00:10:22 · answer #6 · answered by Leroy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. I believe that happened but there is a higher being that had a spec and "flicked" it and then there was something that could make the Big Bang theory possible.
2007-09-03 23:52:16 · answer #7 · answered by starri_eyed_gemini 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Whats wrong with something coming out of nothing ? I think its perfectly reasonable but i think the way we think as humans makes it pretty hard to comprehend.
2007-09-03 23:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by Beans 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It emerged from the collapse of a previous universe.
2007-09-03 23:51:28 · answer #9 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is believed that before the big bang it was just base paritcul floting about they colected and then reacted creating complex matter
2007-09-04 00:01:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
" In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth . And the earth was WITHOUT for and void;and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said,' Let there be light: and there was light'" Genesis 1:1-3
God siad it, I believe it, that settles it.
2007-09-03 23:58:34 · answer #11 · answered by beanhead1972((14HIM)) 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋