If the Big Bang resulted from the explosion of a small, enormously dense, dot of matter, what held that dot?

Question

What force held it together until the explosion?

I did see some of the "Universe" the other night. I wish TV would have more programming like that.

I don't claim to be a physicist or even very knowledgeable about science. So - Sumar - stick that in your singularity.

From my perspective, I can't currently see how anyone will ever be able to answer the question of what happened before the Big Bang. I tend to agree with those who place that issue within the spiritual domain. If there is an answer to that question, then my view is that the answer will come from a non-scientist and that the answer will be amazingly simple. I personally think that there's been so much attention devoted to gravity that other things may be being overlooked. I do know one thing: I wish I had paid a lot more attention to math and science when I was in school. It's really fascinating stuff, but you need a good foundation in hig-level mathematics to be able to understand the ideas being put forth.

Answer 1

False premise. The "big bang" was not an explosion. It was (and is) an expansion of space itself.

Also, nothing "held it together" before the "big bang". There was no before. Time (ans space) began with it.

Now...how did it all happen? Plenty of hypothesis and we are getting closer all the time to finding out. We'll keep you posted.

In the meantime, read up on cosmology.

Answer 2

As per old theory of ancient wisdom a mass structure is suspended and floats in the AETHER.
Hence ,the Aether contains the mechanism of Gravity and another manifested form of Gravity called Magenetism.( see Einstein's lecture on the Aether given at Leipzig Universty in 1920)
There is nothing inside a mass structure to hold it together no matter how small or large the Structure is.
A calculation has been made by condensing the presently assesed mass of the Universe into the smallest possible volume.. The calculation indicates that the mass of the universe is a much bigger in volume than the Big Bang theory alluded to. Proving that either the calculated mass of the Universe was over estimated or that the Big bang Singularity that spontaneously expanded in a minimal time at a velocity much greater than the Speed of light ,actually never occured.

The only Explanation concerning the subtance of Space was only Given one time and one time , In the Biblical record of Creation .

If the Big Bamg occured according to the Theory , than the Universe Creation time of 1.35 x10^-43 seconds would have been a much shorter time than the Biblical time of of Eighty six thousand 400 seconds.

Answer 3

Gravity

Answer 4

Gravity

Answer 5

The universe , whose own historical materialism began, exploded , in my opinion , within an eternal God-- as Monistic Substance and Nature, was created indwelling in a Cosmic ether. The Cosmic eternal Being of God is All-powerfull, and the dialectical forces of God's attributes contain infinite possibilities for infinite number of universes at various stages of historical materialistic evolution. These cosmic superluminal forces are the source of the event that created our universe and began our "time" and "space", but as Spinoza, Maimonides, Aristotle, Ibn Rushd, Leibniz, and other philosophers, such as the Marxist philosopher Bukharin, have alluded to, all reality must be, of not only, just a single Substance and Nature, but exist as a timeless Being of infinite extension. The concept of super-symmetrical superstring of monads of force "points" making up the realm external to our Universe , probably, "held" the point source of our "Big Bang".

Answer 6

Chuck Norris

Answer 7

Nothing held it, its life span was only 10-43 second, it seems to me that thermodynamics kicked in and the tremendous heat began to flow out, creating everything that exists today.

Answer 8

Having read the D.U.M. question and the D.U.M.er answers i have a few things to say. first of all what makes you think anyone knows? as far as i know no one was there. and the people answering spout pure theory and suport it with opinions and religion.

if this was a question asked in my university class they would be put on probation
i m disgusted

Answer 9

hmmm. fabulous question!! i would think gravity held it together, but then what causes gravity? a mass. there were no existing masses of any kind. i think your question takes us to the real beginning of the universe. the big bang may have been the beginning of something, but the space had to be there to begin with right? wow omg you really got my mind going now!!!

I watched the Universe the other night too...hehe :o)

Answer 10

from what I know it wasn't a small dot of matter but an infinitely small point of energy, and since energy can be converted to matter, E=MC², thats what it did. but what caused it to convert or why it was there in the first place is the mystery.