what made the big bang?
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i think that the gases that float around space every time a star dies may have contributed to the explotion beleaved to have happened called "the big bang".
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where did the first energy came from, to produce the BIG BANG. Becaseu there is that law, that there is no perpetum mobile, meaning, that everything needs the first impulse of energy. further, energy can be exchanged and such, but not produced from nothing. so how could the big bang happen out of nothing.
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Yes it all started with dark matter and energy that were under enormous pressure in a molecule and then the big bang was sparked because of this pressure building up. However what was before this and more importantly why it happened no one will ever know. I prefer to follow the scientific explanation of the origins of the universe as opposed to religious ones because it makes more sense and there is proof.
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The Big Bang \n\nAbout fifty years ago, American astronomers studying the galactic star clusters, stumbled on evidence that the entire Universe is blowing up before our eyes. According to their observations, all the galaxies in the Universe are moving away from us and from one another at very high speeds, and the most distant are receding at the extraordinary speed of hundreds of millions of miles an hour.\n\nFirst there was nothing and it blew up and then there was everything and scientists have calculated that it all happened in 1043 of a second. [The] echo of that explosion can still be heard bouncing around in space. Scientists claim that in the big bang all of the fundamental particles necessary for life were formed. All of the complexity we see around us is the result of this massive explosion.\n\n"The new finding hit the scientific world like a thunderclap." It meant that the idea of an ultimate beginning was no longer merely religious dogma. Science itself now indicated that the universe burst into existence at a particular time in the remote past.\n\nIn 1992 measurements by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and by the Hubble Space Telescope seemed to confirm beyond any reasonable doubt that the Big Bang cosmology is indeed correct. George Smoot, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Principle Investigator of the COBE team which made the discovery, said regarding these new observations, "What we have found is evidence for the birth of the universe . . . It's like looking at God."\n\nWorking backwards, the evidence implies that there was a time when the universe was infinitesimally small. The evidence from general relativity also indicates that it was not merely a case of the matter in the universe being concentrated at a particular location, but that space itself was this tiny. At a sudden instant in time all of the energy and mass in the universe was located at this infinitesimally small point and exploded. The currently observed outbound motion of the galaxies from each other is a continuing effect of that explosion.\n\n"The scientific community is prepared to consider the idea that God created the universe is a more respectable hypothesis today than at any time in the last 100 years," Frederic B. Burnham, science historian, declared.\n\nHowever, some die-hard secularists propose that the universe goes through endless cycles of expansions and collapses. Hence, eternity becomes nothing more than an eternal succession of big bangs followed by big crunches followed by big bangs followed by big crunches over and over again and again forever.\n\nBut this violates the second law of thermodynamics, the law of decay, that implies that the universe is in a process of gradual disintegration - running down, like a wound-up clock. And if it is running down, then there must have been a time when it was wound up. Once the big bang takes place and the universe begins its expansion, entropy starts to increase. From this point on it will never be able to go back to its original state.\n\nWhat's more, the first law of thermodynamics (the conservation of matter) implies that matter cannot just pop into existence or create itself. And therefore, if the universe had a beginning, then something external to the universe must have caused it to come into existence - something, or Someone, transcendent to the natural world.\n\nThe facts clearly indicate that the universe is not eternal, and it cannot originate itself The implication is that the universe began at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy. Science has begun to sound eerily like Genesis 1: "And God said, 'Let there be light"' (1:3).\n\nThe evidence requires that we believe God formed the universe at His command, pointing to the importance of taking God at His word literally - from the beginning both of time and the Bible. Second, there is such a striking parallel between the Hebrews 1
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The Big Bang almost CERTAINLY occurred. The cosmic microwave background radiation, expansion of galaxies, and isotropy of the background radiation throughout the universe all seem to indicated that the Big Bang really did occur. The cosmic microwave background radiation is usually the strongest piece of evidence presented by scientists to "prove" the Big Bang. Other than the Big Bang theory there are no really acceptable theories other than those which rely on the metaphysical or religious. For a thorough explanation of why the Big Bang almost certainly did occur, see the following link.
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No one anywhere has the answer to your question, or even if there was any "thing" before the Big Bang. The religious crackpot fundamnetalists certainly don't have the answer! By definition, the universe is everything there ever was, is now, or ever will be. At the instant of the Big Bang, all space-time and energy that will ever exist was created.\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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err the big bang was not really a a collision of matter. All mass and energy in the universe existed at a sigularity, or a dimensionless point. The Big Bang simply expanded and inflated it.
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Okay considering this scientifically (ie not just assuming there is a God) at the moment no one is sure how the big band happened. However the big bang was the start of time as well as space so it is difficult to talk about before. Some scientists believe that the big band was caused by tiny fluctuations of the vacume. Something like the universe can be forever just by never stopping or by time ending much as it began in a 'big crunch'. It is possible that there is something beyond the universe. M-theory suggests that there are many different dimensional universes floating around in a larger dimensional space. All of these are of course theories the point is to try to use these to make observable predictions which will either support or contradict the theory.
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space-time itself originated in the big bang.  everywhere in the universe was once the big bang, and the whole universe was the big bang.  it is actually a common misconception that the big bang occurred at a specific location.\n\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html\nhttp://universeadventure.org/
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The Very high gravitational force of attraction of the small particles that made up the universe was once shrunk into a tiny mass. Due to this a very high temp was developed that led to a huge explosion called the BIGBANG.
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Why is it hard for people to believe that someone bigger than us created a masterpiece? This all leads into the question, Is there a God? If the big bang theory was true, what caused the big bang? I don't see things just happening all around me for no reason. When you plant a seed it grows. But you have to plant the seed first. \nBabies don't just happen. They have to be conceived. The point I'm trying to make is that if we have to react in order to get a reaction, why would it be any different from the beginning? Someone HAD to create us or nothing would be possible.
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About 15 billion years ago a tremendous explosion started the expansion of the universe. This explosion is known as the Big Bang. At the point of this event all of the matter and energy of space was contained at one point. What exisisted prior to this event is completely unknown and is a matter of pure speculation. This occurance was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other. The Big Bang actually consisted of an explosion of space within itself unlike an explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The galaxies were not all clumped together, but rather the Big Bang lay the foundations for the universe. \n\nHowever, I do not believe in this theory. I believe God created heaven and the planets. Isnt it better to believe this than not. :) I want to leave this Earth a believer. A believer in God and Jesus Christ, who saved us all. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Accept him as your Lord and Savior.
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Order doesn't come out of chaos. In other words, a big chaotic bang didn't create the complex human being and the world with all its amazing attributes. So, we know something created us. Either an "accident" (the big bang) or an intentional act by someone/something ("Creator"). And honestly, which makes more sense? I find it irrational to believe that an explosion of gases in outerspace could produce human beings and animals and even something like a snowflake.
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Both. \n\nWho did it?  God.\nWhat did God do?  Create the heavens and the Earth.\nHow did God do it? By using techniques available at such a high order that only today are scientists beginning to understand some of the complexities of it all.\n\nSee, scientists and theologists are climbing up the same hill, but on different sides of the hill.  Once they get to the top, they will be able to see that they were both achieving the same goals and truths.  \n\nThe fact that the things God created are believed to be from magic is amazing.  Understand that the "Big Bang" theory does not exclude God's presence, but only accounts for the forces at work to produce the universe.  This is the "science" of God.  Remember, God has Angels to assist in accomplishing the Will of God.\n\nThe method God used to create the universe appeared to later scientists as the "Big Bang."  Liken this to the explosion of a kernal of corn that creates a different looking product called "popcorn."  Now, imagine yourself as a fly on the wall.  Could you understand what just happened to that kernel of corn?  Would you call it magic because you didn't understand the series of events taking place to alter the kernel's appearance?\n\nWell, this is far from the relativity of human's intelligence compared to an entity that has been around for before the beginning time as we know it.\n\nJust remember, the "Big Bang" theory only explains the processes to produce the universe, not the authors of those processes.
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The Big Bang theory is the most popular one. It is hypothesized that the universe was a collection of dust and other particles forming to one huge mass, until heat and gases formed and pressure from gravity and mass caused it all to erupt in one "big bang" causing everything to project and very high speeds in all directions.\n\nOur world was theorize to have originated through this process. The debris and particles that were projected from the point of origin (now the sun) and locked into its gravitation rotation. The larger mass debris attracted other smaller debris by its gravitational pull to form an even larger mass.\nThis mass growing in size of gases, dust and other particles started to alter by factoring conditions such as distance from the sun and compostion of gases and such. Eventually providing the right conditions and atmosphere to form water which is the basis of life. From that life was made sustainable by the oxygen created by water and plant life... so a billion bunch years later we have our planet earth and the universe we live in surrounded by other planets and stars.\n\nThere are also legends and tales from various religions and cultures that tell the begins of our universe and earth. You'll have to look these up and see.
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Technically it would probably be wrong to say the original matter in the universe was smaller than a grain of sand. The big band is the start of the universe, according to scientists. It's the start of the 4 dimensions(3 dimensions of space and one dimension of time). It's the beginning of all matter and energy. What was there before the big bang? Nothing(if you don't believe in God). So what was it that exploded in the big bang? It couldn't have been the grain of sand sized speck of matter because all matter was a result or bi-product of the big bang. Whatever exploded had to be there before the explosion but matter didn't exist before the explosion. It was a bi-product of the explosion. So, what exploded? Nothing exploded. That, in essense, is what the big bang theory says.........nothing exploded and in the process everything was created. Everything was created out of nothing.\n  You might say "but don't christians believe everything was created out of nothing". Yes. I (as a christian) believe that God created the whole universe out of nothing. He literally spoke it into existence. God said "let there be light and there was light" or so it says in Genesis chapter 1. You say "then what's the difference"? The difference is that the atheists is saying that everything came from nothing and no one since he doesn't believe in a supreme being. Christians believe that everything came from nothing but NOT from no one. There was a God there to make it happen.\n  I guess another problem I have with the big bang is that you have unbelievable order and design coming from an explosion.\nExplode a grenade sometime and when all of the metal pieces fall back to the ground, see it you have a rolex watch lying there.
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The Big Bang was not an explosion, it's only described that way because nobody knew how else to describe it.  In a normal explosion, energy is transformed from one form to another.  The Big Bang created energy and matter, it's totally different.