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What caused the cause of the Big Bang?
The universe began, scientists believe, with every speck of its energy jammed into a very tiny point. This extremely dense point exploded with unimaginable force, creating matter and propelling it outward to make the billions of galaxies of our vast universe. Astrophysicists dubbed this titanic explosion the Big Bang.
How was before the Big Bang?
In the beginning, there was an infinitely dense, tiny ball of matter. Then, it all went bang, giving rise to the atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies we see today. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been told by physicists for the past several decades.
What caused the Big Bang to happen?
Before the Big Bang there was no space or time. So, it is actually meaningless to ask what caused the Big Bang to happen – there was no Universe in which that cause could have existed. This might seem like a bit of a cheat, but there are other good reasons to suppose a cause for the Big Bang might not exist.
Was the universe hibernating before Big Bang?
The universe was hibernating until something set it in motion. This idea says that the pre-Big Bang universe was a small, flat, high-pressure space that was “metastable,” or stable until it found an even more stable state — the way a house of cards might sit perfectly solid forever until a breeze came through.
What was the pre-Big Bang universe like?
This idea says that the pre-Big Bang universe was a small, flat, high-pressure space that was “metastable,” or stable until it found an even more stable state — the way a house of cards might sit perfectly solid forever until a breeze came through. At some point, that “breeze” did come through.
What happened before there was a universe?
Before there was an Earth, there was just a big cloud of gas and dust floating out in the universe. Before there was a universe well, before that is a point that physicists spill a lot of ink over. We don’t know what happened before the Big Bang gave birth to the universe, but the smartest people in science have plenty of fascinating theories.