they say the universe formed 10 - 20 billion years ago...what was there before the universe was formed?
2007-12-11 15:16:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
good question
2007-12-11 15:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody really knows. The Big Bang theory only applies starting from the instant the Universe was born. We have no evidence of anything taking place before that.
Who knows? They're could have been many Universes before ours. But really, there's no way to tell. Maybe some day a way will be found, but for now, we're concentrating on OUR Unvierse.
2007-12-11 15:20:42 · answer #2 · answered by Jimbomonkey1234 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are theories that there was another universe in existence before ours. It collapsed as our universe will eventually do, sometime in the extremely far future. Upon collapse the tremendous heat & pressure caused a super massive explosion. BANG! Our universe was born.
2007-12-11 23:26:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider this:
EITHER you have to accept a first event, which, therefore cannot have a cause (or it wouldn't be the first event).
OR you have to assume that you can go back infinitely in time, and "first" has no meaning;
OR you have to rethink the nature of time itself.
None of these options is particularly intuitive, but you have to choose one.
If you choose “God”, then instead of “what was there before the universe?”, you have to ask “what was there before God?”, which is exactly the same question, just with “the universe” renamed as “God”.
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2007-12-11 16:53:30 · answer #4 · answered by tsr21 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time is like a position on a ball. you start at the north pole and wind around in a spiral until you get to the south pole.
you just asked... what was North of the North Pole?
You can't use the word 'before' when time actually starts with the expansion of the Universe. Space/Time, remember?
No super-being in a dress, sitting on a cloud judging all our souls as good or bad (like he could... the old meanie) was needed, then or now.
2007-12-11 16:07:55 · answer #5 · answered by Faesson 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem with this question is "information."
The universe is theorized to have been formed via the "Big Bang" - a type of explosion that scattered everything all over the place and scrambled any leftover information that might have otherwise been used to answer that question. We have no remaining information with which to answer the question.
2007-12-11 15:25:33 · answer #6 · answered by The_Doc_Man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my only explanation is that God scattered everything out and singled out Earth to be where he would make life. He put all the other stuff out there to test our faith and essentially, give us something to do ie. waste billions upon billions of dollars on worthless space programs.
PS: we gotta hang in there, criesbet!
2007-12-11 16:55:45 · answer #7 · answered by *Tessie* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since I am only 64 years old, let me ask Bubba here at the Bar. he is as old as sin and can probably remember what happened back then...
2007-12-11 23:24:33 · answer #8 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my theory, the universe we know was created actually 64 billion years ago, and before that it was another universe that collapsed on itself then exploded to create the one we know, and i assume that will keep happening, just my theory
2007-12-11 15:19:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the second posters theory is not his, its called the oscillation theory and its quite old. so old that its not supported anymore. dark energy is making the galaxies accelerate, so it wont collapse.
by definition there was no before at all. the big bang was the beginning of space-time. so there was no time before it, so there was no before.
2007-12-11 15:24:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing.Creation.Universe.earth.man.
Supreme Being created the universe. Only a great being can create"out of nothing'.
2007-12-11 15:23:06 · answer #11 · answered by Criesbet 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋