The Big Bang: From where?

[Goobieman]

Where did all the stuff that exploded out of the big bang come from, and how did it get there?

 

[Iriemon]

Where did all the stuff that exploded out of the big bang come from, and how did it get there?

Who knows. What I had thought made sense was that the universe would eventually begging contracting into a every larger blackhole until the gravity and weight sucked everything into to another big bang -- ie that it was a continual cycle of mass and energy. But current thinking consensus is that the universe is expanding at a faster rate and will never begin contracting.

 

[Tucker Case]

I'm going to stick with my previous answer of "God's wee wee". In fact, I think I'll write a paper on it.

 

[Iriemon]

I'm going to stick with my previous answer of "God's wee wee". In fact, I think I'll write a paper on it.

Of course, that begs the question: Where did God's wee wee come from?

 

[Tucker Case]

Of course, that begs the question: Where did God's wee wee come from?

The place just above where his legs come together. Where does your wee wee come from?

 

[Goobieman]

I'm going to stick with my previous answer of "God's wee wee". In fact, I think I'll write a paper on it.

Best answer so far...

 

[Iriemon]

The place just above where his legs come together. Where does your wee wee come from?

I think that is were pee pee comes from, as opposed to the wee wee, unless you were using the terms synonymously, in which case I'm now totally confused about where the universe came from.

 

[Tucker Case]

I think that is were pee pee comes from, as opposed to the wee wee, unless you were using the terms synonymously, in which case I'm now totally confused about where the universe came from.

God's wee wee is what he uses to make pee pee. It is also where the universe came from, so either the Universe is a steaming puddle of pee-pee.... or it is something that would show up under a black light if Dateline was doing an expose on the Universe.

 

[First Thought]

Big Bang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Spartacus FPV]

I think the more interesting question is, whats it like outside of the universe. Since the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? What kind of nothing is it when it also has no space-time, but will?

 

[jfuh]

I think the more interesting question is, whats it like outside of the universe. Since the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? What kind of nothing is it when it also has no space-time, but will?

I used to think and ponder that exact same question. Until I realized exactly what the universe is.
The universe is is. It's not nothing that is outside the universe there is no outside of the universe because there is only the dimensions which we refer to inside, outside up down left right back and forth.
If we are to accept M-theory then what is "outside" very well may be nothing more than our universe wrapped around itself.
To understand that think about an expanding balloon, the shortest route between any two points on this balloon via conventional thinking is a straight line, but that's not true. The shortest route is by literally shrinking the balloon down then folding the flappy rubber so that the two points are now right next to each other or even over lapping. Which may very well be what is "outside" of the edge of the universe.
Don't really know

 

[WI Crippler]

I'm going to stick with my previous answer of "God's wee wee". In fact, I think I'll write a paper on it.

I always thought "God's Asshole" was more appropriate. As thought we were "shat" into existence.

 

[DeeJayH]

and everybody has experienced the big bang....explosive diarhea
who has experienced explosive urination?

 

[Dezaad]

Years ago I read Hawking laying out a hypothesis whereby the nature of pure 'nothingness' is to produce energy. This is entirely conjecture, and probably will remain so.

 

[Keorythe]

The truth is...science doesn't know where the initial matter came from or how it developed from nothing as it is beyond our comprehension. However, in due time science will eventually figure this out.

So for now you have to have faith in what a scientist tells you. Oh wait....:shock:




Note: science is apolitical. It knows what it knows and it builds theories on what it knows. It turns theories into facts or discards them as wrong. It is often the building up of a theory that we run into politics and ideology. As technology develops we are often thrown curveballs into our beliefs whether religious or pure on a scientific level. Anyone who has been through college should have been exposed to a long list of scientists who's theories thought to be concrete have long been regarded as obsolete by today's standards.

 

[First Thought]

The truth is...science doesn't know where the initial matter came from or how it developed from nothing as it is beyond our comprehension. However, in due time science will eventually figure this out.

So for now you have to have faith in what a scientist tells you. Oh wait....

I really hope you're not comparing science to religion... :2wave:

 

[Smoke[MaxX]]

Easy. The universe in some shape or form has always been here.

 

[First Thought]

Easy. The universe in some shape or form has always been here.

That's definitely one line of thought. My only issue with that is that it would seem to contradict everything we know(read: everything has a beginning).

 

[DGomez]

Easy. The universe in some shape or form has always been here.

I've always thought this was an interesting concept. Many great minds have wrestled with the never ending question of "how can something come from nothing?"

So this begs the question: is there a supreme being? As in, there must be some essential force that has no beginning nor end that started everything.

And since energy is neither created nor destroyed, perhaps there was no beginning or end to the universe. Maybe it has just taken different forms.

But then that would mean the universe is on the same playing field as a/the god since you're elevating it to an infinite "being" of sorts. Maybe the universe IS god?

Hmmm..... these are good things to ponder as the night gets later....

 

[DGomez]

I used to think and ponder that exact same question. Until I realized exactly what the universe is.
The universe is is. It's not nothing that is outside the universe there is no outside of the universe because there is only the dimensions which we refer to inside, outside up down left right back and forth.
If we are to accept M-theory then what is "outside" very well may be nothing more than our universe wrapped around itself.
To understand that think about an expanding balloon, the shortest route between any two points on this balloon via conventional thinking is a straight line, but that's not true. The shortest route is by literally shrinking the balloon down then folding the flappy rubber so that the two points are now right next to each other or even over lapping. Which may very well be what is "outside" of the edge of the universe.
Don't really know

There are some that argue that beyond our universe there could be other universes. Perhaps even parallel ones. Plus if you have a universe that operates on a different pace of space time you could, theoretically, have universes that exist in the same space as us just on a different time frame.

 

[Heretic]

Time didn't exist quite like we know it prior to the big bang, either... so the question "what happened before?" doesn't really work...

'Course, I'm terrible at astrophysics.

 

[Tashah]

Time didn't exist quite like we know it prior to the big bang, either... so the question "what happened before?" doesn't really work...

'Course, I'm terrible at astrophysics.

Not at all. Physics gives way to Philosophy beyond the Planck scale.

 

[First Thought]

Not at all. Physics gives way to Philosophy beyond the Planck scale.

+1. It's my understanding that we know nothing about what happened before the Planck Time. For those who do not know what the Plankc Time is, the equation is:

 

[DeeJayH]

+1. It's my understanding that we know nothing about what happened before the Planck Time. For those who do not know what the Plankc Time is, the equation is:

:shock:thanks for clearing that up :shock:

 

[First Thought]

thanks for clearing that up

Haha, try reading a book on Quantum Mechanics or String Theory. It will make your brain **** itself.

The particle in a 1-dimensional potential energy box is the most simple example where restraints lead to the quantization of energy levels. The box is defined as zero potential energy inside a certain interval and infinite everywhere outside that interval. For the 1-dimensional case in the x direction, the time-independent Schrödinger equation can be written as[3]:

The general solutions are:

or

(Euler's identity)