what caused the big bang?
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answers:
say: its a myth
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Andy say: Something from nothing, makes sense doesn t it ? Life comes from life
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goring say: It was Fred Hoyle that formulated the idea of a Big Bang. As a result it became just a theory and theories can be analyzed.
Theory is caused by curiosity about the Nature of the Universe.
To understand a cause for existence it is needed to analyze the Biblical record of Creation.
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thegreatone say: Physics.
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rick29148 say: ok, you got me. I did it, BUT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT !!!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO !!!
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coleman say: it didn't happen so nothing caused it, it is a myth.
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anand say: Your blind running without noticing the staircase on the way caused the big bang.
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Zheia say: If space expands, then we expand with it. There would come a point when the space outside of us expands faster than the space which makes us up. This gives the perception that everything outside expands. If there was a point before the big bang then nothing would have existed outside of it, so the space would have been collapsing with nothing beyond it. But this is based on our normal perception of time and space, which only makes up a tiny slice of reality itself. In the end, to really find out requires a complete change of perception and experience.
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Jeffrey K say: This question leads to an infinite regress. What caused the cause of the big bang? And what caused that? A first event without a cause is a problem too. So what we need is a totally new paradigm. A new worldview. A new concept of time and causality. It will take a genius to come up with that.
I compare this to the old question of what holds up the earth. If something holds it, what hold that thing up? This infinite regress problem could not be solved until Newton and Galileo gave us a new paradigm of how gravity and orbits work.
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Ronald 7 say: Extremely short Answer
It was a Quark of Nature
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Elisabeth say: It wasn't me.
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david say: **** knows
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Sky say: That's one of the biggest questions of cosmology, and due to our total inability to probe and explore the conditions that existed before the big bang, or the realm of higher dimensions beyond the 3+time that we are stuck in where there could have been interactions of energy that triggered the big bang, that's a question we will likely never have the answer to. There are many different hypotheses that are being studied and developed with observational data, but the most they can really do is develop mathematical models that describe what may have happened. They really can't be confirmed.
And any appeals to a god/deity/supreme being are bullshit because all they do is answer a mystery with an even bigger mystery that has even less ability to be explored and studied, and for those who believe such things it does nothing more than put a stop into any exploration for answers, or desire to explore for answers, that they might otherwise have had. It's a bullshit answer that can be dismissed outright.
Carl Sagan put it very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNzlfYJaa...
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Adullah M say: The big bang was the by product of the pure energy that can perform work being ignited then expand out to be our universe.
So the next questions are , where was the pure energy that can perform work come from, how was it become ignited and who control that expansion and become existence as the universe as we are witnessing right now.
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bubby say: Heat.
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JASON say: The big bust up.
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ryan say: God, can I get an amen!
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hoarseman say: The main theory suggests that the universe extends "infinitely" beyond our own "pocket" universe and consists of a scalar energy field -- like Dark Energy -- which is constantly undergoing local inflationary transitions to create ever more pocket universes .
And like many cosmological phenomenon ,it's way beyond our ability to really comprehend
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robert2020 say: Astronomers don't exactly know. It may be:
That was the beginning
It was a rebound from a contraction.
Our universe was split off from a pre-existing universe. A black hole's other side.
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Donut Tim say: The short answer is that it was caused by dark energy.
The big bang is the expansion of the universe and is still visibly in progress. Because the universe is expanding at an increasing rate against the force of gravity, we know that there is an energy causing the expansion. We have labeled this as "dark energy". In this case, "dark" is used to express the fact that we know almost nothing about this type of energy other than its quantity.
We still have much to learn about the universe.
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(One should not confuse a possible origin of the universe with the big bang. There is no evidence for or against the universe having an infinitely long past.)
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james say: & God spoke. A extra atom or less was added to it. It was a compressed unstable mass. It took only 1 more little thing to go bang.
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Nevaeh say: Sheldon’s pretentiousness.
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Wallace say: The big bang.
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Rose say: I thought the Big Bang came from nothing, and all of a sudden there’s was an explosion in the galaxy. This Big Bang Theory does not make any sense.
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Scott say: Their are several theories that I am aware of.
1. Their are multiple universes and in one of these other universes, something catastrophic on a massive scale blew a hole in it.On our end this event was the big bang
2. Again their are multiple other universes, two or more univereses collided creating the big bang
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sparrow say: A black hole exploded. Maybe it's cyclical.
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MysteryGuy say: Well... We don't know. But whatever cased it made the arrow of time flow, entropy flow and the universe expansion at an acceleration.
What we do know of the big bang is that there was a singularity. Most probably infinite gravity. The time was also portably 0 so nothing happened before it. The singularity was so compact and dense with severe pressure. Everything in the universe you see was all o
Compressed into that singularity. So anyway that singularity most probably became
so unstable that it had to go in the other direction and boom. Everything started from then.
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CogitoErgoCogitoSum say: Youre not supposed to ask that question. It makes atheists uncomfortable. The first cause, the causeless cause, the prime mover. Whatever answer they give you, you can always ask what caused *that*. Like that joker Donut Tim who says "dark energy". What caused dark energy? Why does it exist at all? Where'd it come from? Where did the laws of physics which necessitate its existence come from? Quantum uncertainties, he'd probably say. Why is there a quantum realm in the first place? Why must it be uncertain? Cant talk about quantum physics or the nature of singularities without presupposing the rules governing them. Even if the universe has always existed, you must still justify the origination of the laws of physics themselves, and what prompted the various changes in its state over that infinite time. Whenever an atheist gives an answer more specific than "no one knows", its usually a cheap copout to cover ones ignorance.
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The Football God say: Ok, I'll say it, God.
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Dev say: Pick one (or more):
a) Nothing caused it, it just happened.
b) The Universe always existed.
c) Dark energy.
d) We do not know... yet.
Do not pick:
a) God.
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Cassandra say: Who knows!
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Matthew say: The big bang was caused by the brain of the scientist that created the stupid theory that it is. This could be true. The universe is mostly empty space.
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oneofmagi@rocketmail.com say: Our God.
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Doc Awesome! say: Matter-energy from a high-dimensional universe being caught in and collapsed by a singularity. Dark energy (and incidentally the black part of space) is actually that singularity crushing down upon our universe (that speck of energy).
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PhotonX say: We don't know. And that doesn't get you one step closer to proving gods exist, if that's your angle.
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Who say: no idea?
If somebody wants to claim "goddidit" then prove it
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CarolOklaNola say: No one knows. Maybe a a previous universe collapsed and became a black hole. Maybe there a random fluctuation in the quantum foam ( subspace). The big bang was ALL ENERGY. There was NO MATTER exploding in the Big Bang. Matter could NOT exist until the U I Erse hyperinflated and cooled down enough for energy to start converting into matter.
From the Science Daily article cited by Rowan
"...This model is also characterised by singularity like behavior at either end..."
In other words, the Big Bang WAS a WHITE HOLE. Ive been saying this FOR YEARS on YA, yet people metaphorically scream in intellectual agony because it shatters their paradigm security blanket denial of their ignorance and insist I HAVE to stop saying that. I will NOT stop saying that.
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Acetek say: Unknown
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duke_of_urls say: Science does not yet know the answer to your question. Stay tuned, though, they're working on it.
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Rowan say: All forms of energy have gravity, according to general relativity, just because you can't see dark energy, doesn't mean you should assume it isn't like all known forms of energy. It would get sucked into black holes, particularly the trillions of trillions of black holes that form when all the stars burn out, turning the propulsion into gravity, ten times more gravity or more, and no propulsion. What goes up, must come down. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, big bang, big crunch, big bang. They suppressed Einstein's cycling universe theory in English until five years ago, sent him death threats, and changed his last words to God doesn't play dice and the universe must have had a beginning. He didn't say that. He wrote books on the subject, saying he favored Buddhism and Spinozism, called the universe God, if anything, eternal energy.
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