Everything has to have a beginning doesn't it?

Question

Scientifically speaking, did we come from nothing? There was nothing, then there was a "big bang" and there was suddenly something? If the universe always existed, how is that possible? How can something not have a beginning...and how could there be a beginning from nothing?
I wish my mind could grasp this.

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Where%20universe%20from.htm

That essay explains everything and nothing all at once. I'm happy to know that it's not just my tiny brain that can't grasp the idea that the universe always existed, but of course it must have because something from nothing is impossible.

I'm not trying to "say" anything or debate anything, I'm merely looking for a little...enlightenment?

Answer 1

What are you trying to say? big bang started from nothing? If you want to believe in the big bang theory, well it did not started from nothing for what I've picture about it. I mean how can there be a big explosion if there was nothing to explode? So It started not from nothing. If you're not Satisfied with big bang theory that's fine there are new alternatives to that theory and explained things more about the beginning of time.

The previous thing I've read was about something called Ekpyrotic Universe, and where it states that our expanded universe was made from a collision of two parallel branes existed w/in the fifth dimension.

Answer 2

Ever thing has a beginning and if it has a beginning it has an end.
There is a difference between the beginning and the end.
The beginning needed some way to be prompted.
If you go back to time zero there was nothing,but this nothing had to have a potential,which had to be finite.
The result was a quantum space-time pulse of minimum size and duration.
This pulse contained all the ingredients required to allow the evolution of a universe like ours.
When it comes to an end,it will enter a state of eternal nothing with no potential or finiteness,it will stop and never occur again.

Answer 3

Generally, people assume that there was nothing before the Big Bang. I'm sure there's lots of science that backs that up too. But there's also this thing called String Theory. Its goal is to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity into one theory. Its theoretical framework allows for there to be parallel universes, and these can be imagined as slices of bread. I know it sounds weird, but imagine that the universe we inhabit is a slice of bread in a loaf, and the slice next to us, and really all the slices are parallel universes. Some have suggested that the Big Bang really occurred when our slice and the one next to us touched, releasing some kind of shock wave that we interpret as the Big Bang. Of course this means that there was something here before, and when the two slices touched, the universe was kind of "reset" and started over. It could also mean that they could touch again and create another Big Bang. It's really just an idea, and I'm not sure if it is widely accepted (which I doubt), but its interesting to think about.

Answer 4

"In this lecture, I would like to discuss whether time itself has a beginning, and whether it will have an end. All the evidence seems to indicate, that the universe has not existed forever, but that it had a beginning, about 15 billion years ago. This is probably the most remarkable discovery of modern cosmology. Yet it is now taken for granted. We are not yet certain whether the universe will have an end."

www.hawking.org.uk

Look under Public Lectures, then The Beginning of Time

Answer 5

Something can come from nothing. Look up vacuum fluctuations. In space at a tiny scale - all space that is, even inside your body, there are tiny particles appearing our of nothing and vanishing back in to it.

This does not violate the conservation of energy, the energy 'created' goes back where it came from and the net amount does not change.

Answer 6

well, im not sure what you think would explain it, but, i think the universe is just a tiny universe inside a much larger universe that we could never possibly know about. but even for that, what started that? It's too much to understand. we don't even understand .001% of the things in our universe, so how could we understand anything outside of it? People laugh at nerds, but who else would ever care to do the work, and calculations they do?

my answer to this is, it's impossible to determine, time is just a dimention, believing in god is just an easy route and probably wont drive you insane. thats why people believe in god, and still continue to do.

Answer 7

Don't get mixed up, the word "nothing" in its context is misconstrued. The truth of the matter is "there is always something in nothing." Unfortunately the human intellectual capacity at present lacks the ability to comprehend its scientific usefullness. e.g. zero in science is a usefull value by itself, see. It is the figure between "+ & - " therefore nothingness is not an empty preposition. And of course we came to exist out of something from nothing.

Answer 8

It is very difficult to grasp.I won't lie and say I fully understand it.I don't know how to do the "link"thing,but if this stuff fascinates you,I highly recommend you google "Nova:The Elegant Universe"It is free.It is a series of videos that walk you through the latest theories in layman's terms.Excellent learning resource.I think you will enjoy it.Get ready for your brain to explode lol!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

You could solve this question as people always have, by inventing a supernatural explanation. "God did it". It worked with lightning for the Greeks "Zeus did it" and it will always work so long as there is something in the universe that science hasn't explained yet.

Answer 10

the whole concept used to drive me insane. Then I just accepted that there must be more to it than just what we humans see. Time & space are different in God's world. We just won't realize it until we die and see the true reality underlying this Earthly one.