What do you think happened before the Big Bang?

The big fuse

The Universe, or a portion thereof, will collapse upon itself. After a period the process repeats itself. The Big Bang is a yo-yo of energy and matter

Boomerang wrote:

The Universe, or a portion thereof, will collapse upon itself. After a period the process repeats itself. The Big Bang is a yo-yo of energy and matter

What is that conjecture based on?

Gravitation and electromagnetism act over potentially infinite distance—across the universe—and mediate everyday macroscopic phenomena

cpaiglesias wrote:

According to S Hawkins, nothing. Before the big bang nothing existed, not even time so there is no "before" the big bang since before implies time and time is a result and creation of the big bang itself.

I don't think he said that exactly. More like, nothing that may have happened before the Big Bang would have any consequence on the Universe after the Big Bang. So maybe there was something going on before, but it has absolutely no bearing on the current state of the Universe.

u ain't hawking wrote:

Boomerang wrote:

The Universe, or a portion thereof, will collapse upon itself. After a period the process repeats itself. The Big Bang is a yo-yo of energy and matter

What is that conjecture based on?

Theoretical physics. Albert Einstein tossed around the idea.

I am not sure but I believe it involved a song from Passion Pit

Here is a visualization of The Big Crunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQpwxgMQCg

So I think we already had a big crunch or several before the most recent big bang.

The idea that the universe is 13 T years old since the big bang sounds too finite for me.

I think there is no beginning of time and we have cycles of universes.

The Big Bang did not happen at a single point. It happened everywhere simultaneously.

Saying there have been several expansions and contractions doesn't answer what happened before the first one.

That is the question.

Your question doesn't make sense. Time and space are strictly native to the universe. Questions like what happened before the universe make no sense, since time did not exist prior to universe coming into being. A similar but equally nonsensical question is what caused the big bang.

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cpaiglesias wrote:

According to S Hawkins, nothing. Before the big bang nothing existed, not even time so there is no "before" the big bang since before implies time and time is a result and creation of the big bang itself.

I don't have enough blind faith to be an atheist.

I don't think I've seen the word "millennial" used as much as I have on this site.I also don't think I've seen it used by someone who isn't, like, a millennial. Man.

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lettherebelight wrote:

I'm of the opinion there was never a "Big Bang".

Are millennials really so narcissistic that they think they can supersede scientific theory with their dumb hunches?

No wonder so many jobs requiring smart people are being outsourced.

Star wrote:

Here is a visualization of The Big Crunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQpwxgMQCg

So I think we already had a big crunch or several before the most recent big bang.

The idea that the universe is 13 T years old since the big bang sounds too finite for me.

I think there is no beginning of time and we have cycles of universes.

The big crunch/cycles is hardly even considered plausible by physicists. Hard to disprove, but relies on a lot of wild guesses with no evidence.

It's 13 billion not trillion years. So it's clear you haven't done much homework, yet you think your opinion still counts, and it's all about how it sounds to ME. Again, typical narcissistic millennial.

To the topic title - there is no Before the Big Bang. That makes as much sense as "What's north of the North Pole?"

I hate it when I am walking down the street and a universe explodes out of the

nothingness in front of me.

Just to clarify - people don't believe in Jesus because they never saw someone raised from the dead... but they do believe in the big bang theory because....?

If the universe was eternal today would have never happened. Today would've never arrived if there were an infinite number of days before today.

lettherebelight wrote:

I'm of the opinion there was never a "Big Bang". The Universe has always existed, and will always exist. We are only to able observe a infinitesimal part of it from our location. It always has been and always will be. We are just a blip of a planet that has existed for a small spec of time. When mankind has disappeared, the universe will keep on rolling along. An easier analogy would be for the Universe observing planet Earth. Our solar system came into existence, on our planet life formed, eventually evolved into a higher form, we were able briefly to comprehend how insignificant we are as a species, then mankind will wink out of existence. Soon, our Solar System and planets will wink out too. In a few billion years, there will be no sign we even existed.

Jamin lived in his mother's theoretical basement.

Older Than a Millenial wrote:

Just to clarify - people don't believe in Jesus because they never saw someone raised from the dead... but they do believe in the big bang theory because....?

The universe is expanding uniformly, just play the tape backwards.

Not sure, but I bet you could get a cup o' joe and some flapjacks for less than a dime back then.