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We can never observe what happened before the Big Bang, if there were such a notion.

Not only can't we observe what happened before the Big Bang, but it's even worse

than that. The Big Bang was not only the beginning of space, it was also the beginning

of time. So there's no such thing as "before" it.

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Ed Calyan answered that the Big Bang happened and hopefully that is unquestionable even by the wildest cynics. So there can only be two theories:

  1. God is supernatural being and was the only thing before the Big Bang and he/she made existence. This is called Creation Theory. This idea has been adopted in the form of different religious beliefs for thousands of years to explain aspect of life which have been difficult to understand.
  2. Existence is infinite. This is called Recreation Theory. This idea is being adopted to explain existence through our increasing understanding of the laws of nature.

So which is right? Creation Theory has two insurmountable difficulties:

A) If God made the universe he/she cannot exist in it. This is because, if one makes a thing, by definition, one cannot be that thing. Take the example of the Universe, if you fashion energy and matter into Suns, Galaxies and planets you must be outside it and cannot exist within that thing. If the Universe is what one considers existence to be, God must be outside existence. This would mean that God would have no interaction with existence.

B) If Creation Theory is the method of creating existence, then God must have been created and who/what created he/she? These difficulties mean that God is outside existence if he/she made it and that there must be another explanation for who/what made he/she.

Recreation Theory however is the only way to explain infinity and it has as it has eight definite advantages:

1) It is based on the laws of nature. Everything that exists in the Universe recreates, energy, matter, people, plants, rocks and even machines, because people can reproduce them.

2) It follows the laws of physics E=MC2 nothing can be created or destroyed, it just changes form.

3) It explains where energy and matter come from, simply that they were always there before the Big

Bang and that our Universe is part of a larger system. The chicken is the egg.

4) If you think about yourself, how did you come into existence, sperm and egg, parts of other life

your parents, which grew into another life. Trace this back through history and nothing ever died,

all the way back to the Amoeba and beyond; it was just too small to see.

5) Life itself is a function of the Universe, it is inherent within every cell, atom, element and even

energy.

6) The Big Bang was where our Universe came into being, but therefore that is not where existence

started, as our Universe had parents.

7) If you think the Universe is big, just consider for a moment billions of Universes, the Multiverse; at

that scale there is no reason to try and comprehend where they came from, because it is so far

from your existence.

8) Finally and most intriguing is that the Universe is not just expanding from the Big Bang at a

uniform speed, it is actually accelerating. This presents the exciting notion that the Universe is not

a "closed" system, it is an "Open Universe" still taking in light and matter from the Multiverse, as we

would eat and drink and that Black Holes are our Universe's "tail pipe"; or that anti-existence is increasingly coming into being. This is what came before the Big Bang; the Universe made man in it's own image, what comes next by knowing this, is up to you!

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Another answer according to the Big Bang theory, the Big Bang is the very beginning of our universe. It's not possible at our current level of technology to determine the answer to this question for certain; most likely it never will be possible to do so. Any answers you get are therefore speculation; you should decide for yourself if they make sense to you.

Another answer setting aside the issue of evolution and looking just at the Big Bang, the Big Bang created both space andtime. It created the fabric we call space-time 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.

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Basically, there was NOTHING before the big bang This is not a page for debating about whether The Big Bang created the universe, or God did. 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. basically, 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. basically, 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 each other. They are all moving away from the center of the universe, where the big bang started. The universe is still getting bigger to this day.

Great question. Answer: Nobody knows. There is every reason to believe that this CANNOT be known, at least with the present state of knowledge.Note: The Big Bang brought about the existence of this SpaceTime continuum and provided for the limitations of our traditional fourth dimensional reality. As the considered point of origin this singularity form of the pre-Big Bang persisted as the whole of Time and Space within a dimensional framework in which the fundamental forces were unified. Both general relativity and quantum mechanics break down in describing the pre-Big Bang consistence, but in general, quantum mechanics does not permit particles to inhabit a space smaller than their wavelengths. Upon creation brought about via the Big Bang, the unification of forces from within the singularity evolved/transformed towards our current fourth dimensional condition.Some consider the absence of convergence for Space and Time within the absence of multiple dimensions to have presented a perspective of Time without Space; i.e. an all-encompassing abyss of nothingness from which space iteslf evolved. Some consider this abyss to have presented a perspective of Space without Time; i.e. as in a potential reality just waiting to be. Some even conjecture upon a zero density universe within which the intrusion of positive density matter was complimented by negative density matter providing for a speculation of dark energy, upon the precepts of the fundamental foundation for the force of gravity, relative to the acceleration of mass, the gravitational attraction (where mass volume remains positive and static, mass density becomes increasingly negative, and the gravitational constant is positive) is

Fg = m*a = G (m1*M2) for two positive mass densities

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r^2

Fg = m*a = G (-m1*-M2) for two negative mass densities

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r^2

-Fg = -m*a = G (-m1*M2) for one negative mass density

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r^2 and one positive mass density

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At this point in our understanding of our Universe, we can make no statement about what was going on "before" the Big Bang. And I put the preposition in quote marks because we're not really sure that word has any meaning concerning the Big Bang. Plain and simple, our mathematics and physical understanding break down when we go back in time to about 10^-40 seconds after the BB.

In this way we're a lot like Johann Kepler, who observed that planets moved in elliptical orbits but couldn't explain why they did so. We know there WAS a Big Bang, but there's certain things we don't know.

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Prior to our universal reality within a fourth dimensional existence, the instance of universe is modeled within the creation event called the Big Bang. The pre-Big Bang is a theory, in which all the essence of our universe was previously defined within a singularity, is really an extreme condition of our fourth dimensional reality in SpaceTime providing for a temporal confinement in the unification of all the primary forces of the physics (i.e., gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak); the Big Bang is not a true one dimensional perspective of SpaceTime. Therefore, it can be assumed that the actual instance of creation preceded the Big Bang creation event in an unfolding evolution of dimensional realities of SpaceTime. Stephen Hawking has addressed this peculiar connection between time and the Big Bang. In 'A Brief History of Time' and elsewhere, Hawking says that even if time did not begin with the Big Bang and there were another time frame before the Big Bang, then no information from these events then would be accessible to us; i.e., nothing that happened pre-Big Bang would actually have any effect upon the present time-frame. Upon occasion, Hawking has stated that time actually began with the Big Bang, and that questions about what happened before the Big Bang are meaningless. Other Opinion: While the Big Bang introduced the dimensional reality of existence into the void/abyss of non-existence, the expectation is that the contents of our universe will continue to be evolved and expanded within this infinite void/abyss. In this perspective, existence is the intrusion of a fourth dimensional convergence of Space and Time within the infinity of non-existence (or nothingness). Some say this nothingness is representative of dark energy, in which case it would be something. Then we would need to rethink our model of cosmology to allow for nothingness to precede even this medium of dark energy.

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I believe before ( time )God existed by himself.

With the angels

There is no time with God.

The end of time itself as we know it ,will come one day

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I'm not sure this is right
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Where did you find that answer
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The universe would have nothing on until god decided to start the human race and doing that he created the big bang.

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There was no Universe (or time) before the Big Bang.

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"Before" the big bang, space and time did not exist as we know them, so saying "Before the Big Bang" does not make sense.

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the sciencetsts does not know because before the big bang nobody knew something like the big bang would happen and if they do know where the contents were well there hell of smart

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