Origins of the Earth and Universe?

Question

First things first. Big bang. If the big bang caused nothingness to form...then what was there before this supposed explosion? To me big bang is very skeptical. You can't say nothing was there. because then nothingness was created from nothing. That makes since. But where did the first matter ever occur? This spontaneous explosion that just happened with nothing? To me the origins of the universe can never be truly determined. We can only speculate.

Now the earth. Same thing. despite the fact the earth was formed much much later, how can we know how it was formed? How did all of these coincidences align up and where did the first trace of any life ever come from? To me something can't form from nothing. So I wonder if maybe there really is a higher power that created it all? Just a thought.

And how can we ever be sure where it all came from? This happened billions of trillions of years ago. Longer ago then that.

Answer 1

No one's ever really said there's was nothing before the Big Bang, it's just if there was something, there's no way to prove it. A popular theory is that there was another universe before ours that ended in something called the "big crunch", shrinking down to almost nothing, and it's from that that our universe expanded in a big bang. Our universe may go through cycles of Big Bangs and Big Crunches. Of course its all theoretical, but there's lots of evidence for different things. One of the main pieces of evidence is that all the galaxies are moving away from each other. We can measure this and measure this speed. Well, if everything is moving away from everything else, then at some point in the past, they must have been closer, right? when you measure it out, everything in the universe was in the same spot about 15 billion years ago, which is consistent with the Big Bang Theory.

Maybe there was something before the Big Bang, maybe there wasn't, but the point from a theoretical physics point is that whatever existed before the Big Bang doesn't matter because we have no way of knowing what it was (By the way, if you happen to have issue with the theory for religious reasons, it might interest you to know it was a priest who originally came up with it)

The Earth did not form from nothing, it formed from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust that spun into an accretion disc which formed our sun and the eight planets around it. We can watch this happening all over our galaxy, so why would it be happening at other stars but not ours?

Answer 2

Actually, we've seen spontaneaous creation of matter - where an electron and a positron form from nothing, then annihilate each other, leaving no imbalance of energy or matter. Perhaps the universe is just that same occurance on a grand scale. But, you're right - we don't know what there was *prior* to the big bang, or even at the moment of the big bang - but we've traced time back to *almost* that moment.

As for the Earth - the theory that other stars lived & died, and that we, the Earth, the sun, the planets in our solar system, are made up of these remnants makes sense - and we see it happening today, thanks to Hubble's amazing pictures. Hubble has verified some theories, and has introduced new ones.

But, like most everything - it's theory. We see the facts and events today, and try to place the cause of them when we can - but the strongest theory just needs one weak fact to disprove it. What we believe today may be re-written tomorrow - that's the nature of science.

And, who knows? Maybe science will someday come across evidence that something truly was designed by a higher power... but so far - we haven't seen it.

Answer 3

It is because you have convinced yourself that nothing can come out of nothing. In the 'vacuum' of space, there are constantly particle pairs being created out of nothing (and often quickly returning to nothing).

The most common pair is electron and positron (the positron is an anti-electron). Regarless of how you'd look at it, the sum electron + positron is zero.

The bigger the particle pair, the smaller the probability that it could be created out of nothing. For example, a proton + anti-proton pair has far less probability of being created than an electron-positron pair. But the probability is not zero.

Even for something as big as the universe, the probability is not zero. It is very, very small but then, it only needs to happen once.

As for the Earth, that is a much simpler process; the Earth was not created out of nothing. A cloud of gas and dust collapsed under its own gravity and began to rotate as a disk, as the matter was attracted towards the centre. When enough matter was accumulated, the Sun was formed. The remainder of the stuff still in the large cloud formed the planets, the asteroids, the Oort cloud...

The Big Bang (or whatever else one wants to put at the beginning) only happened 14 billion years ago. The Solar system was less than 10 billion years ago. Not trillions and certainly not billions of trillions.

As for all this being the work of a higher power, that is speculation (does not mean it is false, simply that we cannot know).

Answer 4

The big bang theory is imperfect and not proven. No theory is proven of course. But one popular theory which I like to believe is that mind and consciousness are separate. This means that once we die are consciousness merely separates from our dead body. The theory is that we are all part of a major consciousness and that we become a living being to experience new things and try to obtain a higher level of awareness / consciousness. But where did it all come from? We are simply unable to answer that question since we do not know. One thing is for certain.... Three possible answers do exist.

1. We already existed and always existed.
2. We came from nothing.
3. We are nothing and everything. The alpha and the omega. The first page and the last. The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end. Catch my drift?

Answer 5

There is a consensus that at one time the universe was no more than a point in space but there is no agreement as to where this point of enegy came from. Logic dictates that at one time there was nothing but a vacuum, potential energy existed in that vacuum and some unknow ecent caused this energy to focus into a point. It is accepted that matter and enegy are two forms of the same thing, E=MC2. When the first sub atomic particles formed out this point of pure enegy. motion and space were created, the universe evolved from there. A year is nothing more than the period it takes for our planet to orbit the sun, time is a man made element that does not exist, don't let it muddy your thoughts. Time is a matematical concept, it had to be introduce to calulate speed and distance.

Answer 6

i think it was just energy pre energy concentrated and then it was converted into mass. theoreticallty there should be no universe b e=mc[2] and Paul Diracs predictions of antimatter it should have been a big explosion again and back to square on all mass would be turnt back into energy.

philospopically this is a silly question with no reak purpose, i mean you have to imagine it. space and time were created at the big bang nothing but single intense ball of energy smaller than an atom, so that was the universe, asall that exsisted was that.

we think teh earth was created from previous solar systems as the proportion of heavier elements in the solar system so all the dust would collect over time to form a ball of rock. maybe there is.maybe there is not. but the reason it is so persuasive as it fits our primative minds, it overwelms us.

it happened 13.7 billion years...actually
and the earth 4.6 billion.

Answer 7

One of it is surely surely true : Either the Big Bang Theory or the Theory of God, made in seven days.

Answer 8

Atheists are intellectually challenged, close-minded bigots. Atheism and evolution are a faith unto themselves. They do their desirable to stress nails in God's coffin at each and every probability. If God and creationism is so stupid and meaningless, then why submit such a controversy against it? Why do atheists get so riled up with reference to the assumption of God, or a good philosophical debate? probable the atheists lack the mind to maintain on an smart verbal substitute approximately something previous their sphere of information? One creationist places up a introduction museum, and hundreds of people line as much as protest against the 'brainwashing' of united statesa.'s toddlers. WHY? The atheist and evolution crowd have a literal strangle carry on the colleges, and all varieties of media to indoctrinate our childrens from cradle to grave with reference to the 'scientific info' of evolution. Any debate or info against that's brutally smashed. back, WHY? no remember if that's not this style of risk, then merely forget approximately it. notwithstanding it style of feels like the choice is authentic. destroy even the assumption of the assumption of God ( lots for unfastened thought, examine thought police right here), and attack any thought that's not in goose-step with evolution thought (even however evolutionists collect oftentimes and argue over who's thought is sweet, somebody could be incorrect). A famous evolutionist pronounced that evolution became a 'miracle' of over 40 TRILLION random probability activities. i think of he could have chosen his words greater heavily. for the human eye on my own to adapt by ability of itself is a mathematical impossibility, in no way strategies linking it to the human strategies, and all the intricacies of the human physique. 4 billion years of evolution wont provide you a jar of pond scum, not to indicate a worldwide finished of tens of millions of particularly some creatures, all of that are outfitted by ability of a hassle-unfastened genetic blueprint. merely my strategies on issues.

Answer 9

before the big bang, before everything, there was nothing, it is impossiable for the human mind to understand nothing because we cant, when I say nothing I mean just that NOTHING, pretty crazy to think about but try you'll go crazy trying to fathem it

Answer 10

Time travel