Big Bang the beginning?
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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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Repeat after me:\n\n"There is no explosion in the Big Bang theory, only expansion."\n\nThe name "Big Bang" was actually originated by opponents of the theory, and unfortunate name as the theory involves no "bang" at all.
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the complete concept of big bang is explained here... beginning to the end.\n\nWhat happened before the big bang, evidence of the big bang theory, what caused the big bang, big bang theory of evolution are some of the questions asked on the Internet today.\n\nWhat do we mean when we talk of big bang theory? It is in the last 30 years or so that scientists across the world accepted and confirmed the existence of the big bang theory. It has more or less been proved that the evolution of the Cosmos occurred with a big bang. There is no further denial on this fact of big bang theory.\n\nThis evidence put forward by the scientific community is further corroborated firmly by spirituality. How?\n\n\nLet us travel to the beginning of time when the Cosmos is in the process of complete dissolution. What happens after the complete dissolution of the Cosmos? In the field of the spirituality... everything contained in the Cosmos is but an illusion... an act of Maya (Veil of ignorance). There is nothing in the Cosmos which is solid in nature.\n\nBroken down to the basic building block of the universe... everything in the whole of Cosmos is a cluster of atoms and molecules. Then what constitutes the Cosmos itself? Spirituality spells out the truth... everything contained in the whole of Cosmos is but souls atmans and ether, the inert matter.\n\nEther is that dark black substance which fills up the void existing all over the Cosmos. Apart from ether spirituality defines the Cosmos consisting of souls atmans and nothing more. Whatever is visible to the physical senses of a human being nay every living being is limited to the use of the physical senses. Beyond the senses.... nothing exists in the whole of Cosmos except the world of souls atmans and ether.\n\n\nThe dissolution of the Cosmos is best defined in Bhagavad Gita, the sacred doctrine put forward by Lord Krishna in the battlefield of Kurushetra. As per Bhagavad Gita Almighty God is defined as, "the sum total of all the purified souls atmans in the Cosmos at a given point of time"! At the time of the dissolution of the Cosmos all the souls atmans in the Cosmos having purified themselves collect together to form what we know as God Almighty.\n\nThis collective power of all the souls atmans in the Cosmos... the size of half a thumb as detailed in Bhagavad Gita and unable to contain itself for long explodes with a big bang. And this big bang leads to formation of a new Cosmos... a new series of universes, galaxies, cluster of stars and solar systems.\n\nEvery new Cosmos can begin only after a big bang. No Cosmos can form without the big bang having occurred! The occurrence of the big bang announces the formation of a new Cosmos. It is the big bang theory which paves way for all the souls atmans in the Cosmos to start their cosmic travel of 8.4 million manifestations.\n\n\nThe big bang having occurred... it takes millions and billions of years before the system becoming conducive for life to germinate. As the conditions became conducive for life to germinate on Mother Earth... the souls atmans (within the gravitational pull of the solar system) settled on Mother Earth. This gave birth to life on Mother Earth.\n\nStarting the journey as an amoeba and finally culminating into the form of a human being... it is only as a human being that one reaches the end of life... gains enlightenment and finally salvation!\n\nThe big bang theory announces the start of a new Cosmos... the beginning of life for every soul atman on its cosmic journey!\n\n\nSpirituality or otherwise... the start of the Cosmos could not have occurred without a big bang. It is only the big bang theory which governs the start of cosmic system. There is no other means which could have led to start of a new Cosmos without a big bang.\n\nThe big bang is that phenomenon in the life of a Cosmos without which the existence of God Almighty himself would get negated. God Almighty being the sum total of all purified souls atmans
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The Big Bang didn't happen in a place.  Space and time were created in the big bang. The Big Bang is a theory to explain universal/spatial expansion. \n\nI think it's easiest to look at the idea this way. Scientists have observed that everything past our local galactic cluster seems to be retreating from us. All observations point to the universe being infinite and roughly uniform in all directions. \n\nIf it's expanding at given rate now, chances are it's slowed down. Go back in time, the universe was denser and expanding faster. Rewind the timeline far enough and you'll come to a period when everything was all bunched together in a massive, undiscernable clump. Then, suddenly, Bang!!! Space! And everything in it... which has been spreading out and slowing down (pretty much) ever since. \n\nTry thinking about it like the air expaning in bread as it rises, or in a balloon as it fills. Everything is moving apart from everything. Only the universe has been infinitely large from the get go. It's almost like someone just keeps adding empty space in between everything.\n\nIf it helps at all, the center of the big bang for the visible universe was the same place the center of the visible universe always is. Wherever you are. From that point, everything you can see was at some moment in the past gethered together in a lump with infinite density.
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At the beginning of the universe, I would imagine.
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Would you like to see a real picture that was recently made of the beginning of the Universe?\n\nhttp://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0217/
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In a word, no.\nWhen you look that far away, you are looking back into time to the beginning of the universe.\nBut if the universe did originate from the big bang, i.e, a point source singularity, then all of the observable universe that far away was one point (or relatively close to it)!  So what would it really mean for the big bang to have come from a certain direction?  It came from all directions!\nObservations made that far away are made in the infra-red and microwave also.  It forms the 2.7°K background radiation.  This background radiation is not uniform, but it is also not as polarized as you may think. It does form the dipole anisotropy, but is not in general due to the big bang.\nSee:\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101Flucts.html
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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.
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The physics behind the beginning of the universe  was probably different than it is today.  For instance the period of inflation was not something that is happening now  Unless the current expansion of the universe is the same thing just slowed down.  But I would say the chances are that even a TOE won't help us understand where the universe came from.
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You could start with the Wikipedia entry for the Big Bang.
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No one anywhere has the answer to your question, or even if there was any "thing" before the Big Bang. The religious crackpot fundamnetalists certainly don't have the answer! By definition, the universe is everything there ever was, is now, or ever will be. At the instant of the Big Bang, all space-time and energy that will ever exist was created.\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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I think that the big bang theory is flawed. It was theorized and believed by humans who just refuse to fathom infinity. Its based on the premise that everything has a beginning and an end. Greater enlightenment points to every ending is a new beginning. I think you're right, the little bangs theory makes more sense. And I will take it one step further, that these little bangs are the other black holes (assuming there are two kinds) where matter comes from another place not in this universe, a negative image of this universe. And everything in this universe is headed towards one of these (as yet undiscovered) black holes to be pushed out (bang) into the alter universe.
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When you look out into space and see 2 galaxies\ngoing in opposite directions you can deduce  \nthat they were closer a year ago and closer yet a million\nyears ago and closer yet a billion years ago. Astronomers\nhave basically looked at countless pairs like this and\nfound that they all were as close as  one point\napproximately 13.8 billion years ago. From that point in\ntime, everything exploded in opposite directions and kept\non getting farther and farther away from the start. So\nthe starting point is called the big bang.\n  What it started with and why  is still conjecture. \nIt has not even reached the level of being called a theory.\nAnd by the way, a scientific theory is not merely a wild guess. It's the best possible, and most widely accepted logical and natural explanation for the evidence.
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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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Who knows? Don't you think that speculating about the beginning of the universe is far reaching enough, you want scientists to posit ideas which predate that for which there would be zero testable merit to? Maybe there are other 'universes' outside ours some quadrillion light years away popping off big bangs all the time. Maybe before the big bang there was a big collapse where all this matter and energy fell together into a ginourmous abyss-hole. Who knows how many orders of existence could be identified beside what is within our range to observe.\n\nI mean trying to see the forest through the trees is one thing, but trying to see the sattellite image through a microscope is just ridiculous.
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Allow me to confuse you even more. \n\nTo begin with, the universe is not the result of an explosion. An explosion takes place inside something else, like a building, earth's atmosphere, etc.,  There is absolutely not one single shred of evidence that our universe began inside anything else.\n\nIn the first few instants of the universe there was nothing but spacetime and pure energy--no matter (mass) of any kind, including hydrogen. It wasn't until the universe was about 3 minutes old that the first low-mass atomic nuclei began to form, and another 400,000 years would pass before neutral atoms formed. Finally, after that 400,000 year point, the universe had cooled enough that hydrogen could first appear to fill the already existing spacetime volume of the universe.
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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