What was before the big bang? How did this universe just spring up from nothing.?

Answer 1

Steady state for an unknown period of time.


It didn't.

Answer 2

As for a bang, big or small, who made it happen, and where did the ingredients for a bang come from?
In their 1977 report to NASA the leading men at the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had fond words for the big bang:
A concept of cosmic evolution ... is receiving considerable attention today. This does not mean that it has been proven, nor that all scientists concerned with the broad range of studies involved with this theory agree with it—either in its detail or its overall structure. Yet it serves as a useful framework within which to define general themes of extraterrestrial investigation and. . . to help guide the planning of specific programs in Space Sciences. (Report to the NASA Administrator by the Outlook for Space Study Group)
In other words, the big bang theory may not be true, "but," say the scientists, "we're using it anyway, to plan out the next stage of our multibillion-dollar space program." They're using the big bang to get the big buck.

Answer 3

Using the known laws of physics and observing the universe as it is today (expanding) you extrapolate backward in time.
Going back - this would then mean a contracting universe certain things become evident (again using the known laws of physics). As the universe gets smaller it heats up and some of it's forces coalesc into single forces. At the smallest point of its contraction all the forces unite into one single force. And at that point - often called a singularity the laws we now know all break down so that you simply cannot use the known laws of the universe to extrapolate beyond that point.

There is no way to know what happened before the big bang.

Answer 4

The big bang explained the emergence of the universe based on all of the evidence available at the time. Dark matter and the fact that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating will result in a new explanation. Stay tuned.

Answer 5

Humans get so hung up on "cause and effect". The so-called Big Bang is simply the unifying connection point for everything in this universe, one "end" of time if you like. The sensation of time "passing" creates the illusion of a separate dimension of "Time". Time is simply the connecting strands between elements of reality. It has no independent existence. No matter or energy? No time! To imagine something outside of or "beyond" the Big Bang is nonsense. There is no beyond.

Answer 6

Nothing was before the big bang, or to be precise, that's the best estimation at the moment, singularities are notoriously hard to analyze. After the beginnig event it pretty much followed basic laws of physics.

Answer 7

Absolutely nothing. There wasn't even a before, before the big bang. Time is one of the properties created by it.

And it didn't spring from nothing. It sprang from something, as quantum mechanics everywhere can demonstrate.

Answer 8

Matter has always existed, there is no such thing as 'nothing'.

Nothingness is a biblical doctrine, "at first there was nothing, then there was light".

Physics show us that matter changes but doesn't cease to exist, so why would we think that matter never was?

The bible claims that the earth was stopped from rotating for several hours while Joshua killed off the rest of a Gentile army, why would we rely on it for the nature of the universe pre earth?

Answer 9

No one knows. There might have been millions of universes before based on some theories like the Big Crunch

Answer 10

If all the matter/energy of the universe was contained in a dimensionless point, ie a singularity, what altered the laws of physics to allow that singularity to be disrupted and expand.


The time index = 0 problem is unsolvable...but it doesn't relate to God as God created time.

Answer 11

Before the big bang was the "You would if you love me."

Sorry weird day.