If it randomly occurs, why hasn't there been another Big Bang to wipe out the one we are currently living in?

Question

Are not the elements that caused the current expansion still in existance? Why have they not exploded again and recreated the universe?

Don't these random events supposedly gather energy and releases it in the form of a cosmic explosion with no sentient manipulation?

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It would appear that it takes a leap of faith to blindly accept the theory that this system did not have a sentient architect to set certain restrictions in place
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Comrade Abdul Hassan (below) LOLOLOLOLOLOL

You speak as though you were there and know more than the top scientists that are still putting the puzzle together. Hilarious.

The ring of debris (below) Because as a sentient being, you took steps to avoid this from reoccurring.

If you simply flailed about with no thought behind it, you would indeed re-break your arm.

Answer 1

I don't know, but my guess would be that the "Random" events of the Big Bang either are random enough to occur only a couple of Billion years or so. Or else the Big Bang changed the forces that are in play.

Of course, if we were made by God, then why hasn't he lost interest and created another Universe over this one?

Answer 2

The universe and everything in it came from a singularity. There has only been one singularity in this particular universe. Where did the singularity come from? Well, it's all theory anyway, but a best guess is from another dimension, also referred to as a "false vacuum." This is not to say that along the tensor lines of a cosmic string that stretches across the entire universe there can't be a rift at some point, so who knows? A black hole may also explode one of these days, but according to Stephen Hawking's calculations, for such an event to happen would take much, much longer than the universe is old. If the universe keeps on expanding, at some point everything will be so far away from everything else, there may indeed be a false vacuum again. Empty space is not empty, there is the potential for virtual particles to wink in and out of existence. Nobody knows the true underpinnings of space, but on the quantum level, there are some really weird phenomena that defy logic. Non-locality is one of them, where in theory information can travel at superluminal speeds instantly, regardless of the separation of the virtual particles. Quantum physicists are finding that on some very microcosmic level, everything in the universe is in some way connected, as if it were still a singularity.

Answer 3

Actually M Theory suggests the cause is a collision in the underlying framework of other universes. If it is right, they happen all the time, but in various dimensional directions. If it is right, we actually could cause one to happen and even that would be safe. It would never hit exactly the same angle and position as an existing universe because the mechanism involves the existing universes themselves.

This is still relatively untested, but it is the first time all the math makes total sense. The real answer right now is that we don't know for sure yet. But I expect that they will in my lifetime.

Answer 4

There is a very creditable scientific explanation about this. In order to understand this one must have an understanding of astrophysics or quantum mechanics.

Edit:
to the poster above me: Actually the universe will rip apart. Seen it talked about on the History Channel about two weeks ago

Answer 5

Think of our universe as one bubble in a bubble bath of bubbles. Each wave of the water makes more universe bubbles. That doesn't mean our bubble/ universe is going to pop. And it doesn;t mean that we would know more bubble/universes were created. It doesn't mean that they haven't been created ether. And it doesn't mean ours won't pop sometime. Of course this is a vary simple explanation of a vary complex idea. But if you think about it doesn't this idea leave room for god and heaven and maybe hell to. Just maybe science has found where they are at. Even if they are untouchable it's nice to think they might be there after all.

Answer 6

IT WASN'T AN EXPLOSION.

It was a rapid expansion of the Universe from a singularity to a trillion miles across in the space of under a second. Our Universe is not a singularity, so it can't happen again. I don't know where you got the idea that it 'randomly occurs'.

Please learn something about the subject before you say this kind of thing.

Anyway, shouldn't this be in the science section?

Answer 7

Well we're supposed to be going towards a big crunch(sounds terrible right?), where the universe stops expanding, and comes back in on itself.

But who really knows if the big bang happened. Maybe everything's just always been here but we can't wrap our minds around that fact?
Or maybe the universe was crated in some other way. We can't really know

Answer 8

Get your head checked; when the Big Bang occurred, all matter in the universe was condensed into a point smaller than a period. Now I ask you: is that happening now? No? Ha.

Answer 9

The elements that caused the explosion are now scattered. They were all in one place in order to cause the 'Big Bang'.

Answer 10

*sigh*
That's not how random works. That isn't how Stats works. It just doesn't work that way. Sure it could happen tomorrow. Or never again. That's what "random" is. Random does not mean absolute.
You know I thought myself average intelligence, perhaps a little higher until I came here. Compared to some of you people I am damn near gifted.