The big bang?

Question

The big bang theory bugs me, how can it be used as an explination to how the universe was created.

how the hell did the ball of gas get there? if there was no universe then where the hell was it. ahhhhhhh someone shoot me quick to stop the pain.

Answer 1

picture sitting on a dock at the edge of a lake, with your toes dangling in the water, birds flying overhead, an occasional fish jumping, cotton growing high in the fields, your father being rich and your momma good lookin'.

forget that nasty old Big Bang. there. isn't that better?

There are just some things that we don't know yet. What happened in the first hundred trillionth of a second after the Big Bang occurred, we don't know. What kicked it off, we don't know. Like the other answerer said... ya gotta live with it OR get a degree in astrophysics/cosmology and work with the other hundred thousand or so who are trying to figure it out. Good Luck! I gotta get back down to the dock now....my toes are drying out.

Answer 2

You're not the only one who has a problem with that. Most cosmologists are uncomfortable with the idea of an acausal Universe. That's why I think they came up with string theory, eleven dimensional Universe, and other junk which just muddies up the waters. If these were causes, then where did they come from? It's "duck and cover" for the scientists.

It may have to be conceded that at some point there was a big bang and it didn't have a cause. The biggest question of the Universe can only be answered by violating the laws of thermodynamics. And yet, we are here. Either the Universe came from nothing or has been here forever. Neither sits well when we apply our reasoning and physical laws.

Fortunately, it's not knowledge that would be of any particular use. Our curiosity may not be satisfied, but being unable to know won't hurt us any. Just our pride. In a way, it's like the Universe "putting us in our place." I feel justifiably humbled by it.

STEVE, IT PROVES NOTHING. THE ONLY THING MORE DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN THAN THE UNIVERSE, IS GOD! AT LEAST THE UNIVERSE EXISTS. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT GOD DOES.

Answer 3

The problem is that all our understanding is based on the laws of physics. The best minds our species has ever produced are still working on what these laws are, and often can't agree on what they are or how they should be applied. These laws, the conditions under which the universe as we know it operates, only came into being AFTER the Big Bang, and therefore can only be used to determine events which also happened after, not before, so we can't know for certain how the Big Bang came to happen. We just have to accept that there are some things we are not capable of knowing, and deal with what we can know instead.

Answer 4

A friend of mine once bestowed upon me his wisdom when I asked him a similar question that, "Just think of it as there was once nothing, and then all of a sudden there was something."

That statement pretty much sums up what happened, by dividing up the possibilities of what happened before the "Big Bang" into two categories.

One is that there was nothing, and then all of a sudden there was something. As much sense as that doesn't make, we cannot rule it out as a possibility. We can only justify it by our observations, because their obviously was a beginning, but nothing dictates that their had to be anything before that. You must simply accept it.

The second is that there was something. You can then ask yourself the question of, "Where did it come from?" The only answer to that question is that either it has existed forever, where it was never created or destroyed, but has simply existed. Or that it refers back to the first case where at one point it was created, and has expanded/contracted ever since then.

By me saying that, "there was nothing and then something", I am in no way implying that some godly being made this happen. If there was true nothingness, then even god himself could not exist.

Answer 5

There are new theories that extend past "The big bang".
One of which is "The big splat".
"The big splat", commonly mistaken for the moon's creation, talks about extra-demensional or parallel universes that have stacked upon one another in the space/time continuem.
Apparently, the demensions were crossed, with that came the introduction of gravity, weak & strong nuclear force, and the electromagnetic spectrum. This also brought the expansion (not explosion) of the universe.
This is all theory mind you.
Oh, and don't shoot yourself. Instead, by a telescope. Enjoy.

Answer 6

It's the latest theory. But you have to be aware that matter as we know it can exist in different forms. Such as in stars, black holes, quasars, novas,etc. Squeezing the universe into one tiny ball is hard to imagine, but it was far from gas. For instants, the sun is made up of hydrogen that has been heated and compressed to the point that one small thimble full of the sun has the same mass as down town Manhattan! And a piece the size of a needle will equal the mass of the empire State building, weight and all! And even this mass can be transformed even smaller with out loosing weight such as in black holes. According to science, matter can't be down sized to nothing. Just close to it.

Answer 7

it wasnt a ball of gas. it was a ball of energy. when it exploded that energy cooled into matter.

and no one knows how it got there for sure. there are theories about it, but no one knows.

one theory is that there are tiny 11-dimensional membranes that are everywhere in our universe and outside of it. and whenever 2 of them collide they create a massive amount of energy and a whole new universe. at any one point there are a near infinite number of spots the membranes would be colliding, so there are universes starting all around you, and then the instant they start they split off from ours forever.

its just a theory, but its one of the more popular ones

and the big bang theory is not bullshit at all. how else do you explain the galaxies all moving away from eachother. or that amount of hydrogen and helium in the universe perfectly fits the big bang model. or the existence of deuterium. or the cosmic microwave background? exactly, the big bang is no bullshit.

Answer 8

Why do you need to know? The Big Bang is just a theory where a little magical single little ball that you could have fitted into your pockect; expanded into space and is still expanding.. The rest is all mathematical derivations.

Answer 9

This is why people believe in god, because it can't be explained how things got to where they and stuff that happens.

I do like the theory by Anthony Peak though which states that we live life in our heads and nothing is real, if you break down objects down so far there really is nothing there it's just our brains that create objects.

Answer 10

it doesn't really matter! what is known for sure is that there is a highly complex solar system out there that humans will never fully understand. some things science can determine for fact. other things scientists simply suppose. try to focus on something that really matters .... like fuel sources other than oil.