Where did the materials come from that supposed to have started the big bang?
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There's an interesting question.  Perhaps from the ultimate collapse of the previous universe.
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The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. \n\nIn 1927, the  "Belgian priest Georges Lemaître"  was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance. \n\nThe big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery. \n\nAlthough the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.
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The Big Bang theory is a scientific theory in cosmology, initially suggested by Georges Lemaitre. It is essentially the most widely accepted theory about the universe's origin. \n\nThe idea is that the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago (current estimate ~13.5 billion) from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter in all directions. Before that point all matter was concentrated at an infinitessimal point, known as a singularity. \n\nThe idea was most strongly propounded after the astronomer Edwin Hubble (after whom the famous telescope is named) found in 1929 that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance, suggesting at some point they were all at a single point. The theory also predicted the existence of a cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). and received widespread acceptance when this radiation was actually discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in the 1960s.
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your answer is in \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
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It resulted from the big bang. Time and space and matter and energy all started then. What existed before and why it occurred is for the philosophers to ponder. I'm content with the fact that we don't know everything right now. We might someday though.
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The Earth is assumed to be about 4.6 billion years old, and unlike what everyone else said, it's not based solely on anything contained on Earth, including carbon dating. The oldest solid material found on Earth is about 4.1 billion years.\n\nThe guess -- and that's all it is, a guess -- is based on the rate of radiological decay of material on Earth and in meteorites found on Earth and around the solar system.\n\nIf you assume that the entire universe is formed from a common pool of matter (the essence of the Big Bang theory is that all material in the universe came from a single, supercondensed source that exploded); if you assume that therefore, all the matter in the universe has been equally distributed in all directions; if you assume that the rates of decay in all radiological material in the universe are consistent regardless of time, their position in the universe, etc.; then you can derive, by comparing the same kind of radiological material from celestial bodies that were not formed in our solar system, bodies that were part of our solar system when it formed, and that material now on Earth, the age that the Earth must be at the time it began to take solid form.\n\nThe paticular materials used to get that age is Lead-206 / Lead-207, which are the products of decay in Uranium-238.\n\nThis is further supported by temperature measurements of the universe and the evidence of background radiation from the timing of the Big Bang, which is assumed to have occurred about 15 billion years ago; given the rate of expansion of the universe visible to us, and the rate of change in both the speed of that expansion, the temperature of the universe and the density of space, we can verify the assumptions of the Earth's age to be within the estimation of a "young Earth" of 4.6 billion years old.\n\nAlso, to the person who said "The Bible": If you derive the history of the Earth from the Bible, as countless theological scholars have done through extensive research, it's about 6,000 years old; no scholarly Biblical research places the age of Earth at more than 10,000 years old.\n\nIf you want to believe that, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that's fine. But you should at least agree with your evidence before citing it.
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About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the Big Bang. At the point of this event all of the matter and energy of space was contained at one point. What exisisted prior to this event is completely unknown and is a matter of pure speculation. This occurance was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other. The Big Bang actually consisted of an explosion of space within itself unlike an explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The galaxies were not all clumped together, but rather the Big Bang lay the foundations for the universe.
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Who created the energy the so called Big Bang came from?\nWe believe God has always been here, just like your energy has.
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Mathematetically, philosophically, nothing. That has been the big question since Einstein theorized that the universe had a beginning. The question moves from the realm of science, a process of theory and discovery, to revelation, a process of information delivery. In short because nothing (not mathematic formulas, time, energy, literally anything) existed the only way for us to know what happened prior to the Big Bang is by devine revelation. Science has struggled with this idea for a long time and many theories have been proposed but all theories proposed require a moment when nothing existed and then suddenly there is existence. This is the principle behind the Cosmological Argument. Briefly since everything that exists has a cause, the universe exists, it must logically have a cause. I would encourage you to read, 'When Skeptics Ask', by Norman Geisler or 'I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist', by Geisler and Turk. Good luck on your search.
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Probably like it started, with a BIG BANG.
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The theory of the big bang doesn't explain things before it. But usually it's believed that before the creation of the universe there was energy concentrated or concentrating to the critic point where it blasted and spreaded through universe. The Big Bang theory is'nt the only theory about the creation of the universe, only the most accepted, you could find very interesting and different ideas. I don't like religious answers because their principal argument is faith and since faith can't be proven or refuted, I don't think it can be used as a valid argument, sounds tautologic for me (in logic, tautology is an statement that is ever true).
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Before the big bang god had baked beans
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err the big bang was not really a a collision of matter. All mass and energy in the universe existed at a sigularity, or a dimensionless point. The Big Bang simply expanded and inflated it.
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where did the first energy came from, to produce the BIG BANG. Becaseu there is that law, that there is no perpetum mobile, meaning, that everything needs the first impulse of energy. further, energy can be exchanged and such, but not produced from nothing. so how could the big bang happen out of nothing.
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The origin of the universe has always been a mysterious event in which the laws of physics appear to break down. Could it be that the big bang was caused by the collision of two parallel universes?\n\n*Riddle of the Big Bang (scroll down 3/4 of page. Running time 7:37)\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html\n\n*Dr. Michio Kaku: M-Theory: The Mother of all SuperStrings\nhttp://www.mkaku.org/articles/mtheory_superstrings.shtml\n\n*Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by M. Kaku\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...1988531-0244141\n\nThe strange notion of parallel universes is gaining strength in the scientific community and may solve our most basic questions about the universe, including the origins of the Big Bang itself.\n\n*Parallel Universe \nhttp://search.discovery.com/search?proxystylesheet=sciMain&site=sciContent&client=sciMain&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=p&getfields=*&q=parallel+universe
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Very intersting question which I or no-one else can answer with 100% certainty. I'm no expert in physics but i figure that to create the source of the 'big bang' would  require an infinite amount of matter to be squeezed into a small ball by an even more infinite amount of pressure - which would have to be equal on all sides... so where did all this matter & pressure come from???
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I am assuming you mean in "historical times" or otherwise it would have to be the "big bang" that supposedly created the known universe.\n\nThat aside, in 1908 (I think it was) in a remote area of Siberia called Tunguska, a huge meteor, comet, or something, alien craft for all anyone knows entered the atmosphere at such high speed it vaporized well above the ground like an "air burst" bomb.  It leveled hundreds of square miles of forest, set fires, killed all wildlife (and any nomads that may have been there) and was heard over most of the future Soviet Union and much of central Asia.  There are lots of old black and white photos taken by Russian exploration teams sent to find out what happened.  That one gets my vote. Search for "1908 Siberian meteor"