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Asked by cash369 to Becky, Carrie, Kelly, Robin, Usaid on 20 Mar 2012.
Question: What was the universe like before the big bang???
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Robin Stafford Allen answered on 20 Mar 2012:
Almost impossible to imagine. Hope you do better than I can! Blackness with no time, and no space! Regards Robin
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Usaid Rauf answered on 21 Mar 2012:
Tough question this, probably better answered by a Physicist. I’ll give it a go though.
According to the big bang, our universe is spreading out all over the place, implying it started at one point somewhere a really long time ago (~13.7 billion years). So, all of the matter in the universe existed in this single point. This would be really cramped for everyone. Also, the mass of this single point was so immense that it meant time could not progress either (Einstein’s Theory of Relativity).
By the way, these are all theories…
Comments
mitch commented on :
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started…
Robin commented on :
@Mitch: So you HAVE been listening when the words are sung in the theme music at the beginning of the Big Bang Theory… Well done!
jayjayscott102 commented on :
JUST BLACK
Robin commented on :
@jay: Sadly words are sometimes ineffective at explaining somehting so completely incomprehensible as what happened before the big bad, There was no time, so there was nothing for no time and an infinite time at the same moment…………weird or what?
Ken commented on :
Hi ! I am Ken from the Water Zone: Looking at recent thinking about the subject, our universe might just have come from an event in a parallel universe. So, before the big bang and all that plasma (and the dark ?), in this scenario, we might have seen a cosmic event in which a star (or gallaxy) was so small and dense that it was falling into itself to become that famous “singularity” which caused the big bang. . . . . . . .
I wonder what you think @cash369 ?
Robin commented on :
@Mitch: So you HAVE been listening when the words are sung in the theme music at the beginning of the Big Bang Theory… Well done!