'Before the big bang..'

[Black Sheep]

Does that even have a meaning?
Since time is just another dimension, an aspect of matter, does it make sense to ask 'what was/happened before the creation of our universe?'

note:by creation i mean formation, not creation by a creator..:closedeyes:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

According to our current understanding asking what happened "before" the Big Bang is like asking what lies South of the South Pole. Since time started at the moment of the Big Bang, it makes no sense to ask what happened "before".

[Sadena Meti]

Read "The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking

[Anarch_Mesa]

Read "The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking


I agree, somehow Hawkings manages to write in a language every one can understand.

[Hit The North]

I actually threw a really great party before the Big Bang. I'd done these really cool mixtapes and everything.

But after the Big Bang there was just like too many gate-crashers and we had to lock it down :(.

[Winter]

Who knows. I like the theory of the big crunch, when the universe collapses into itself and creates a big bang, thus our universe is potentially infinite.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Who knows. I like the theory of the big crunch, when the universe collapses into itself and creates a big bang, thus our universe is potentially infinite.

Unfortunately current observations rule out that one. Also, a Big Crunch universe cannot be infinite because it is "closed" in time, and therefore cannot expand to infinite proportions.

[Winter]

Unfortunately current observations rule out that one. Also, a Big Crunch universe cannot be infinite because it is "closed" in time, and therefore cannot expand to infinite proportions.

Yea, aren't current observations showing dark matter growing in between planets? The whole thing is mind boggling and hurts me head :laugh:

I think I'll leave this to the experts and go back doing what I do best.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Yea, aren't current observations showing dark matter growing in between planets? The whole thing is mind boggling and hurts me head :laugh:

The mass-energy of dark matter (Which can be more appropriately said to exist in and around galaxies and galactic clustersrather than the planets, due to being so rarefied) is far outweighed by dark energy, which comprises about 73% of the universe and is accelerating the expansion of the universe.

The universe is a fascinating place, and that's why physics is my favourite branch of science.

[LOLseph Stalin]

The big bang is something I have never fully understood. They say you can't get something from nothing. If the big bang created everything, where did it come from? :confused:

[Dystisis]

The main question is not what was before the big bang, it is what the hell made the big bang happen in the first place.

Similar questions arise, that I am just going to guess are related. Why is the universe not chaotic (why is it that there is order, why can we separate one item from another and so on, why is there appearant diversity).