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We can never observe anything that occurred at the Big Bang or any time around then, because photons were not free to travel through the universe yet.

If we accept that quantum mechanics was applicable to the creation of the universe, then the Heisenberg uncertainty principle dictates that all of the matter in the universe may have come from nothing.

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The big bang isn't just the beginning of space. It is also the beginning of time. As hard as this is to grasp.. there was no before the big bang.

Asking what happened before the big bang is like asking what is north of the north pole.

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Setting aside the issue of evolution and looking just at the Big Bang, the Big Bang created both space and time. It created the fabric we call spacetime in modern physics. It's not like the Big Bang happened in an "empty universe" that was here already with time passing in the void. No, the Big Bang actually "created the space" in which it now expands. And it created the time, too. These ideas are consequences of the Big Bang theory, and it is currently the best scientific way we have to explain the universe, explain how it formed and became what we can see all around us. So basicly, there was nothing before the big bang. It seems confusing that the Big Bang could have happened even though there was no matter or energy in the universe. But really, scientists speculate that there could have been a time before matter, energy, and time itself even existed. The "Big Bang" is a term that describes the event that created the universe. It goes like this: There was no time, no energy, and no matter. basicly, NOTHING existed. Then, a tiny volume of space, smaller then the head of a pin, suddenly expanded and grew to an enormous size. As the volume of space expanded, it created all the energy and matter in the universe. It created nebulas and galaxies of stars and planets. (and many other things, of coarse.) This is when time began to flow. There is plenty of evidence to support that this theory is true. The big bang would have been such a huge event that the waves of energy it created are still traveling in space today! People have actually detected these waves with a device called a spectroscope. Not only this, but scientist think that the universe is still expanding. basicly, the Big Bang is still happening today. We know this because astronomers have noticed that the galaxies of our universe are all moving away from eachother. They are all moving away from the centre of the universe, where the big bang started. The universe is still getting bigger to this day.

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There was no space, no time, so one cannot imagine what happened "before" the Big Bang.

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Possibly an unending cycle of Big Bangs and Big Crunches. Or, it's also possible that there was nothing at all. Nonexistence.

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Did the string theory happen before the big bang?

Unclear as there is no way to know what happened before the big bang, or even if there was a "before the big bang".


Why were there particle's before the big bang?

Nobody knows for certain what happened before the Big Bang exploded, or why it exploded when it did explode. Astronomers have determined much of what happened back to the Big Bang, but, Nobody knows anything, about what happened before the massive explosion that started the universe we live in now, and for the last billions of years. There are countless unanswered questions about the pre Big Bang universe that might never be answered.


Did space time energy preexist the BIG BANG?

Both space and time were created by the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang. Before the Big Bang, there was no space or time. Now we have space and time, and we call the fabric in which the universe exists spacetime.


How old was the universe when the big bang thory happened?

Events in the Universe are often dated from the Big Bang. But the fact is, NOBODY KNOWS what (if anything) happened before the Big Bang. The Big Bang MAY have been the start of time itself; but it is possible that the Universe existed (in some form) forever in the past.


What was the condition before the Big Bang?

The earth only came into being about 9 billion years after the big bang.At the time of the big bang, not even the atoms that make up the earth existed as atoms. And, since the big bang brought the universe into exsistence, the question of what anything was like before the big bang is impossible to answer.(Ain't cosmology fun?)

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What materials created the big bang?

We have no idea what, if anything, existed before the Big Bang, or even if the concept of "before" has any meaning in this context.


Is there anything left at the site of the big bang?

The big bang is a theory.


Did the string theory happen before the big bang?

Unclear as there is no way to know what happened before the big bang, or even if there was a "before the big bang".


Did other big bangs happened before?

There's no way to know, and at the present time, there is no theory, hypothesis, suggestion, or conjecture that describes anything before the big bang. In fact, according to current thinking in Physics and Cosmology, the big bang was the origin of "time", so the very concept of "before" the big bang has no meaning.


What did space look like before the big bang?

There was no such thing as 'space' before the Big Bang. In fact, there was no such thing as 'before' before the Big Bang. Space and time both began with that event.


Why were there particle's before the big bang?

Nobody knows for certain what happened before the Big Bang exploded, or why it exploded when it did explode. Astronomers have determined much of what happened back to the Big Bang, but, Nobody knows anything, about what happened before the massive explosion that started the universe we live in now, and for the last billions of years. There are countless unanswered questions about the pre Big Bang universe that might never be answered.


Did space time energy preexist the BIG BANG?

Both space and time were created by the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang. Before the Big Bang, there was no space or time. Now we have space and time, and we call the fabric in which the universe exists spacetime.


How old was the universe when the big bang thory happened?

Events in the Universe are often dated from the Big Bang. But the fact is, NOBODY KNOWS what (if anything) happened before the Big Bang. The Big Bang MAY have been the start of time itself; but it is possible that the Universe existed (in some form) forever in the past.


When the big bang happened were humans alive?

No. The big bang was before the dinos.


How old am I if I was born in 15000000000 BC?

To be born then you would have had be born before the Big Bang. There was no "before" the Big Bang.


What was the condition before the Big Bang?

The earth only came into being about 9 billion years after the big bang.At the time of the big bang, not even the atoms that make up the earth existed as atoms. And, since the big bang brought the universe into exsistence, the question of what anything was like before the big bang is impossible to answer.(Ain't cosmology fun?)


What was inside the space before big bang?

Most theorists will tell you that there was no space at all before the 'big bang'. Space itself began expanding along with the materials in the big bang.