Always been curious. I don't doubt the big bang, but where did all that matter come from before it got dense, and then exploded? Or is this one of the things that we still don't have a clue about?
2007-09-11 13:58:14 · 9 answers · asked by Jesse G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I'm a layman too, but I'll try. There is no real theory about what happened before the big bang. However, there are some educated hypothesis.
There's a "theory" that our universe is a part or the remnants of a big black hole. Our universe would then be called a white hole.
There's also some theories that say the universe is expanding and collapsing into itself over and over again.
The most spectacular comes out of string theory. Outside our universe is supposed to be what's called the bulk. In the bulk are branes (2 dimensional strings) and they are waving because they are interacting with each other. Sometimes they collide, causing a big bang. We are what's left of that collision.
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/feb/cover/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/su-uo020907.php
http://www.physorg.com/news63041667.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
2007-09-11 14:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by Batfish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One theory is that "the" big bang was actually "a" big bang, meaning one of many. The theory is that the universe expands after a big bang until gravity slows down the expansion and eventually reverses it. Then the universe starts to shrink. Eventually it collapses into itself and there is another big bang. Sort of like a ball that travels up, slows due to gravity, then travels down before bouncing again. A ball will run out of energy because of friction though. The universe probrably would not.
2007-09-11 14:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea of something from nothing sounds interesting enough...
The question is can we say for sure that nothing is really nothing?
Energy has many dimensions...Dimensions we could not understand as humans.
I believe two energy's separated and left a bubble wake of matter to form the beginning of the universe.
The Universe probably evolved fast at first and then became more like it is today over time.. Long periods of time.
The Suns formed solar systems and in turn Galaxy's.
The planets were formed much later when everything was finding it's home... Matter is attracted to the sun and so begins the mixing pot where planets are made.
I dunno,
Only God knows.
2007-09-11 14:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One theory is that there was a super dense ball that reached a critical mass that exploded. Thats big-bang theory.
So I guess there was just a super dense ball that contained everything.
2007-09-11 14:03:47 · answer #4 · answered by Beef 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got faith that the compressed potential that improve into the singularity improve into all potentials and potentials of potentials. i'm between the potentials (possibilities) of the potentials, as are you. It purely took us a on an identical time as to get there. earlier the great Bang, there improve into no time. there improve into no area. there improve into purely awareness (potential) compressed. on the factor of the great Bang, count improve into created and time began. If all improve into one on the singularity, then all are entangled now. meaning that awareness, being eternal, is shared between us all. as quickly as we see ourselves as persons, we are unsuitable. this is an phantasm reason via the divide between this length adn the prevalent next length the place superposition can ensue.
2016-10-04 10:04:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In laymens' terms, per your request.
You might want to then check out some of my late answers.
2007-09-11 14:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by science_joe_2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Victor Stenger theorizes that there was nothing and to keep nothing which is an unstable condition is difficult . with zero
energy because potential energy is at rest he supports his idea mathematically. here is the link for his theory :
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/Godless/Origin.pdf
2007-09-11 14:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The current idea was that the big bang was the beginning of both time and space, so there was no such thing as "before". In any event, it would be unknowable.
2007-09-11 14:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
there was no big bang so this question is like asking what krypton was like before it blew up and all its people died(save superman of course) its a completly moot point.
2007-09-11 14:03:28 · answer #9 · answered by The cryptic paranoid 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋