So Exactly What Existed Before the Big Bang?

[patrickBOOTH]



AHEM...
Not necessarily, remember according to that story she was literally the only human female on the planet. Standards tend to go down when you have no other options.

This is true, I guess he was just super whipped. He knew it was eat that apple, or end up with the goat...

 

[sugarglider unrelism]

Of course that's ONLY if the UnV keeps expanding.

OTHERWISE, it'll contract and yo yo back into another BB.

BTW, during the initial BB, when everything was expanding to form the UnV and >energy turning in2 matter, dust to meteor aggregate, and that to stars & planets > that initial expansion rate was faster than light > had 2b > light came afterward.

Hmmm......now here's the real conundrum: special relativity as we know it says energy & matter interchangeable. Simply put if you heat matter, then the mass of the matter increases. Another way > accelerate matter approaching relatavistic speeds (speed 'o light), then the mass of the matter increases (a BB turns into a bowling ball just through straight line speed).

Sooo...all that matter (whatever it was during the BB - who knows electrons, protons & such) going FASTER than light...why is there so much SPACE instead of being rock solid immovable granite-like mountain instead of all this fragmented, orderly formations (galaxy, galaxy clusters) and so on?

Far out? Actually Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, implored everyone he came into contact with to dream up the most fantastic scenarios for scientific explanations 'CAUSE, it appeared (and eventually proved out) that the more implausible ones were the ones closest to the truth.

NEVER cause yourself to bemoan your wanderings into the realm of imagination, my friend..b/c you just might come upon the truth as no one has ever seen it before.

 

[james_timothy]

Lovely dreaming.

The physics, though, isn't on point- light existed just as soon as the big bang happened- so did all the four fundamental forces, though three where acting as one at that temperature.

As the universe expands, things like protons and galaxies don't pick up kinetic energy; instead the temperature of the stuff, measured just like the temperature outside is measured, is falling, and falling fast: the universe was and is cooling off.

 

[Pliny]

Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? Horizon-BBC 2011

look out for this doco - interviews with scientists who question the math of the standard model and Big Bang