/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5479846]

Sup /sci/
This has been bugging me for years, what was before the big bang? Where did it come from?
There must have been a cause for it. Is there truly no possibility of a deity kicking it off, after which evolution took off?

[Anonymous No.5479859]

Know it and win the nobel prize.

[Anonymous No.5479862]

>>5479846
>what was before the big bang
The universe

[Anonymous No.5479870]

Why does it bug you? Why does time have to supersede everything?

[Anonymous No.5479873]

>>5479846
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
/thread

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[Anonymous No.5479877]

The answer is so bizarre that when and if we do discover it, no person will be able to fathom even the slightest thing about it.

[Anonymous No.5479886]

>>5479873
> theory
should we post all other theories and call it /thread ?
faggot ?

[Anonymous No.5479891]

>>5479886

[Anonymous No.5479898]

>>5479886
Right, instead we should solve this problem right ITT.

Faggot

[Anonymous No.5479902]

>>5479886
No, we could probably just solve all of the mysteries of time and space now and call them facts.

Right, riiiiiiighht?

[Anonymous No.5479905]

>>5479846
from what i know, there was the same universe before the big bang. tyme is cyclical, and repeats itself. The idea of the big bang is not that it came from nothing, it is that the universe became so massive that it collapsed in on itself so intensly that it once again exploded out on itself, and on and on and on forever. same concept as balck holes, except that the supernovae that create black holes also create many more baby stars.

[Anonymous No.5479908]

>>5479886
Your focus on "theory" makes me think you don't know the difference between a theory and a hypothesis. faggot

[Anonymous No.5480043]

Stephen Hawking thinks that there was nothing before the big bang, because with it time itself started
(As with black holes time stops)
I really like the way he talks about it in the curiosity episode, but 4/8 of the thing is useles clips and shorts, and 3/8 is for retards
http://youtu.be/XL9S3csJGwI

I find this theory interesting too:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/11/physicists-may-have-evide_n_1957777.html#slide=465055

combining both, before the big bang there was nothing, like before chapter 1 in a videogame there's nothing

tl;dr there's nothing, deal with it

[Anonymous No.5480063]

The problem with theories of what happened 'before' the big bang is that they are all inconclusive, but various camps of people treat these theories as gospel regardless. There is a great amount of evidence that a big bang recurred, but whether the universe is cyclical, open, closed, finite, infinite, and so forth are still very much open questions.

[Anonymous No.5480070]

>>5480063
*occurred, not recurred, I meant

[Anonymous No.5480089]

>>5480043
You should definitely stop watching/reading popular science.

[Anonymous No.5480144]

>>5480070
Eternal recursion on the brain, huh?
Any insights regarding the principle behind such iteration?

[Anonymous No.5480233]

>>5480063
No, I think some dudes won the Nobel prize for proving that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

[Anonymous No.5480279]

>>5479846
There was no time, it started with the big bang. No time, therefore no "before."

[Anonymous No.5480287]

>>5480279
>time started

[Anonymous No.5480300]

>mentioning evolution and the big bang at the same time

[Anonymous No.5480303]

>>5479898
>le_already_knew_that_face.png