Who started the Big bang? And what was before it? How did the universe just make itself happen?

Answer 1

The question you ask is a philosophical question rather than a science question, and it is certainly a question that no one knows the answer to today, it is unlikely your question will ever be answered be science as what you ask cannot be observed.

The standard Big Bang model is singular at the time of the Big Bang, t = 0. This means that one cannot even define time, since spacetime is singular. In some models like the chaotic or perpetual inflation favored by Linde, the Big Bang is just one of many inflating bubbles in a spacetime foam. But there is no possibility of getting information from outside our own one bubble. Thus I conclude that: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

Many religions have dogma that discusses the beginning and what existed before, but in most cases science and discovery eventually show that the philosophy of these doctrines cannot be supported by experiment (that obviously doesn’t stop people from believing them).

Here is what one of the most prominent physicists of our time Stephen Hawking guesses; Steven thinks that at the start of the universe there was what is called a “singularity”, this is when all of the cosmos is an infinitesimally small point where neither time, energy or matter exist. So that means that before the start nothing existed, no energy to move or heat things, no matter to be acted upon and no time passed. Essentially there was nothingness.

Now there are some other theories that say that the universe may cycle and there may have been cycles before this cycle. Many astronomers are testing the mass of the universe to see if it will eventually stop expanding due to its own gravity and the begin to collapse back to a singularity (right now they are having trouble finding enough mass). If it does eventually collapse back to a singularity then maybe the process starts again and has done so before, but once again, no one knows what caused the sudden ripple in time/space that got everything going.

Answer 2

Questions sometimes are wrong even without answers.

"WHO started the Big Bang?" is one such.

Now you could ask, "Did some entity throw the 'on' switch that created the Universe?" and that is a valid question, but when you say the Big Bang needs a WHO... now you are making an invalid assumption.

As the other fellow mentioned, your question should be asked in the Mythology & Folklore section or Religion & Spirituality, for the Big Bang was a natural phenomenon. How did it start is kinda hard to explain, but because of the interactions between time and space, it may be difficult to actually point to a 'beginning', as that implies time running forward and with all of the Universe contained in a singularity, there may not have been time.

Answer 3

Check out white holes, they are the anti black hole. They spew forth energy and light from an event horizon instead of sucking it in, Scientists say that before many supernovas and even the big bang itself these white holes exist for a split second. this is a pretty new phenomenon and has yet to be witnessed, but it has been proven using math. There is a theory called the brane theory which says our universe is one of many floating almost like a bubble in a bucket of suds with new universes being created and destroyed all of the time.The white holes could be an Einstein wormhole to another one of these universes, and the black holes are our universes' equivilent It is hard to imagine othe universes because there laws of physics, spacial dimensions and behavior of time, if it even exisits outside our universe, would be completely different, therefore making it hard to physically conjur in your mind, that just a more recent theory though, check out fabric of the cosmos by Brian Greene, anything by stephen Hawkin, and of course watch the universe on tuesdays on history channel, its a great show.

Answer 4

No one knows for sure how the Big Bang happened, besides, Big Bang is just another widely accepted theory to how the universe was created. What happens if the Big Bang REALLY didn't happen?

Answer 5

According to the current theory, a singularity was the size of a proton but infinitely dense. In a moment, it became trillions upon trillions of times bigger. What you are asking is beyond the knowledge of science and are religious matters. Scientists have hard time accepting religious views because science, indirectly proves god's existence. If matter or energy can't be made or destroyed, where did it come from in the first place and where did that singularity come from. Religious texts answer these questions, science does not.

Answer 6

there are few theories about this, since ur asking this type of questions ur obviously a beginner- so i wont go in2 it 2 much

b4 the bigbang theres was said 2 be a singularity which is all the natural forces of nauter- gravity, strong, weak, and electormagnetic were as one rather then as seperate now

the breaking of this singularity created a massive explosion

also if ur going further hence comes the idea of inifinite dimenstions or the magic number 25 dimenstions

Answer 7

Brilliant minds think that all of a sudden that "nothing" decided to blow up. That is the best that they can come up with. In their minds, it has to be anything but God created it. Even if it was "nothing" that blew up. Brilliant minds lack some simple common sense.

Answer 8

Fascinating question. One that science cannot answer. You'll need to explore the realm of religion and / or philosophy to go beyond the realm that science can explore.

Answer 9

Can't answer your question scientifically. But ask yourself, could anything happen without some sort of catalyst whether it be physical or spiritual.

Answer 10

Science has not yet answered those questions. Don't take that as an excuse to go spewing "goddidit".