Probing Question: What happened before the Big Bang?

Pennsylvania State University ^ | 03 August 2006 | Barbara Kennedy

[pageonetoo]

What you said! Bump!

I just love science. It gives me something tanglible to explain some of those things around me that I don't understand.

I have a whole lot of questions for God. He's got the time to answer them...

[em2vn]

All that now exists bursts from the singularity in a nano second and that wasn't an explosion? What was all of the light and heat and matter flying through space,old Jack Benny jokes?

[airborne]

I fervently believe in the Big Bang theory.

God spoke and BANG, the universe came into existence.

I like it!

[Hemingway's Ghost]

A bit of foreplay, I'd imagine.

[doc30]

All that now exists bursts from the singularity in a nano second and that wasn't an explosion? What was all of the light and heat and matter flying through space,

All that light and heat and matter weren't flying through anything. The Big Bang was an explosion OF space, not of things in space. ANd the universe is still expanding from the Big Bang. Things are getting farther apart, but not from moving through space. More space is coming into existence between things.

[N. Theknow]

The Big Match lit the Big Fuse?

[B-Chan]

101° Rx = + /_\

[B-Chan]

John 1:1

[exit82]

Yes, it's an old joke. I like it too.I use it on humans who think they know how the universe began without God's help. It either cracks them up or they become very quiet.

[ShadowAce]

there was no "explosion." Spacetime expanded rapidly.

What's the definition of "explosion?" If you slow down an explosion, what is actually occurring? Rapid expansion?

[ShadowAce]

Probing Question: What happened before the Big Bang?

Iran declared war on Israel?

[Dimensio]

Yea, to some elitist, superior intellect I guess my questions are quite "inane," thanks for noticing!

Your question is 'inane' because you continue to ask it despite having repeatedly been given an explanation that your question is founded upon a faulty premise. This suggests that you are not asking your question as a means of gaining knowledge, but because you are attempting to foster doubt by deliberately and dishonestly misrepresenting the subject.

[DungeonMaster]

I notice the Evos are not waxing techno on this one. They are leaning more to the lame joke and personal attack mode. The technobabble is not as well developed in the area of pre-bigbang pseudoscience.

[Fitzcarraldo]

What happened before the Big Bang?

"He was preparing Hell for those who ask these kind of questions" ;^)

[Coyoteman]

I notice the Evos are not waxing techno on this one.

Perhaps some of us post opinions only in areas we know well ===> Placemarker <===

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

And for the umpteenth time, there was no "explosion." Spacetime expanded rapidly.

It was obviously methaphor.

[em2vn]

What did the singularity exist in, nothingness? If so what was the nothingness comprised of, because if nothingness existed it was comprised of something or a total absence of something to which it could be compared.

[MissyMa]

Bookmarking for later.

[bert]

If there is a steady state over time, the Big Bang disturbed the trend. The post yesterday describing galaxies headed in a common direction indicates a reversion to a point and a pre big bang site.