Need a name for conditions before the big bang?
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bangie matter..bangie stuff..bang matter..prebloom..big bing..small bang..barney..pebble?..orange seed..bang seed..THE DOT..squished universe:P..nano²-existence or smth..\ni'll keep thinking about it its kinda fun:P\n..and maybe i'll come back
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Yes, before the big bang.  Actually, that's the EARLIEST we could even begin to say that, since M-branes may have been exerting gravitational effects on each other (if they exist).
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Prior to the Big Bang, space did not exist. And neither did Time.
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In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe emerged from a tremendously dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago
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The scientific theory is that the Universe started as a fluctuation of the vacuum. Such vacuum fluctuations make appear a small amount of energy, for a small time. This phenomenon is responsible for the existence of forces, that hold the Universe and matter together.\n\nNormally the bigger the energy fluctuation, the smaller the time it is in existence.\n\nNot so the Big Bang. That was a HUGE fluctuation. So big that a lot of energy came to appearance in the form of mass, elementary particles. These particles started expanding, before the vacuum could reclaim the energy.\n\nAnd it is still expanding today. 14 billion years later.
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If M-theory is correct, the Big Bang may have been caused by a collision between other universes so you may find other universes (perhaps with differing physics to our own) beyond our universe. Otherwise you would find nothing.
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The question assumes that the matter was compacted, but before the big bang, there was no universe as we understand it, so the idea of "volume" is somewhat meaningless.  What was the sound that came before silence?\n\nPre-BigBang makes your head hurt doesn't it? It does mine!
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There was no 'before the big bang'. Time itself started at the big bang, so even talking about before makes no sense. It's sort of like asking what is north of the north pole.
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Science has no way of knowing what, if any, conditions existed before our universe began. There are any number of theories, but at this time absolutely no way to prove or disprove them. One of the more popular ideas is that our universe is merely a "small" bubble contained within some infinite Mother Universe. Another theory turns to quantum physics and string theory to try and describe our 4-D universe being "folded" up in a larger cosmos of higher dimensions.\n\nIt wasn't until some .000001 second after the Big Bang that the temperature of the universe had cooled enough (still more than 10e12 Kelvin)for a quark-gluon plasma to form. At .0001 second the temperature was down to 10e12 Kelvin and the first protons and neutrons emerged from the initial plasma
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you can't reach that, since you haven't known what was happening before Big Bang, and what happens before that, and before that, and before that, and before that, and before that, and before that, .......
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1 and 3 cant be answered other than by speculation\n\n2-According to current theory, the first physically distinct period in the Universe lasted from "time zero" (the Big Bang itself) to 10-43 second later, when the universe was about 100 million trillion times smaller than a proton and had a temperature of 1034 K. During this so-called Planck era, quantum gravitational effects dominated and there was no distinction between (what would later be) the four fundamental forces of nature – gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force, and the weak force. Gravity was the first to split away, at the end of the Planck era, which marks the earliest point at which present science has any real understanding. Physicists have successfully developed a theory that unifies the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, called the Grand Unified Theory (GUT). The GUT era lasted until about 10-38 second after the Big Bang, at which point the strong force broke away from the others, releasing, in the process, a vast amount of energy that, it is believed, caused the Universe to expand at an extraordinary rate. In the brief ensuing interval of so-called inflation, the Universe grew by a factor of 1035 (100 billion trillion trillion) in 10-32 seconds, from being unimaginably smaller than a subatomic particle to about the size of a grapefruit.\n\nPostulating this burst of exponential growth helps remove two major problems in cosmology: the horizon problem and the flatness problem. The horizon problem is to explain how the cosmic microwave background – a kind of residual glow of the Big Bang from all parts of the sky – is very nearly isotropic despite the fact that the observable universe isn't yet old enough for light, or any other kind of signal, to have traveled from one side of it to the other. The flatness problem is to explain why space, on a cosmic scale, seems to be almost exactly flat, leaving the universe effectively teetering on a knife-edge between eternal expansion and eventual collapse. Both near-isotropy and near-flatness follow directly from the inflationary scenario.\n\n\nElectroweak Era (10-38 to 10-10 second)\n\nAt the end of inflationary epoch, the so-called vacuum energy of space underwent a phase transition (similar to when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses as water droplets in a cloud) suddenly giving rise to a seething soup of elementary particles, including photons, gluons, and quarks. At the same time, the expansion of the universe dramatically slowed to the "normal" rate governed by the Hubble law. At about 10-10 seconds, the electroweak force separated into the electromagnetic and weak forces, establishing a universe in which the physical laws and the four distinct forces of nature were as we now experience them.\n\n\nParticle Era (10-10 to 1 second)\n\nThe biggest chunks of matter, as the Universe ended its first trillionth of a second or so, were individual quarks and their antiparticles, antiquarks – the underlying particles out of which future atoms, asteroids, and astronomers would be made. As time went on, quarks and anti-quarks annihilated each other. However, either because of a slight asymmetry in the behavior of the particles or a slight initial excess of particles over antiparticles, the mutual destruction ended with a surplus of quarks. Only because of this (relatively minor) discrepancy do stars, planets, and human beings exist today.\n\nBetween 10-6 and 10-5 second after the beginning of the Universe, when the ambient cosmic temperature had fallen to a balmy 1015 K, quarks began to combine to form a variety of hadrons. All of the short-lived hadrons quickly decayed leaving only the familiar protons and neutrons of which the nuclei of atoms-to-come would be made. This hadron era was followed by the lepton era, during which most of the matter in the Universe consisted of leptons and their antiparticles. The lepton era drew to a close when the majority of leptons and antilepton
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Assuming the universe to be a perfect system expanding adiabatically post big bang, you can determine when the average temperature in the universe was cooler than the temperature required for nucleosynthesis, then take the difference between the times.  Or, from Wikipedia, "...at three minutes after the Big Bang, the universe becomes too cool for any nuclear fusion to occur."  There ya go.\n\nHowever, http://www.scienceandreason.net/oq/oq-co008.htm#history is contrary to wikipedia.  Surprise....
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I think the Big Bang is actually another universe budding off. There were mulitple Universes (Parralel Universe Theory) before the big Bang. Yet, what do u define as a universe? If it is a "world" of intelligent being maybe not (who knows). So the answer is yes and no depending on ur definiton of a universe.
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Thats hard... What is it all? Is "it all" before today? Well, then you have yesterday... Year, last year... Its kinda vauge... Before Creation? Maybe nothing, Maybe the first Atom, (atomic particle thingy)  Maybe negative-space? Who knows? Not me... Do you?
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In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe emerged from an enormously dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago. The Big Bang theory is based on the observed Hubble's law redshift of distant galaxies that when taken together with the cosmological principle indicate that space is expanding according to the Friedmann-Lemaître model of general relativity. Extrapolated into the past, these observations show that the universe has expanded from a state in which all the matter and energy in the universe was at an immense temperature and density. Physicists do not widely agree on what happened before this, although general relativity predicts a gravitational singularity (for reporting on some of the more notable speculation on this issue, see cosmogony).\n\nThe term Big Bang is used both in a narrow sense to refer to a point in time when the observed expansion of the universe (Hubble's law) began — calculated to be 13.7 billion (1.37 × 1010) years ago (±2%) — and in a more general sense to refer to the prevailing cosmological paradigm explaining the origin and expansion of the universe, as well as the composition of primordial matter through nucleosynthesis as predicted by the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory [1].\n\nOne consequence of the Big Bang is that the conditions of today's universe are different from the conditions in the past or in the future. From this model, George Gamow in 1948 was able to predict, at least qualitatively, the existence of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) [2]. The CMB was discovered in the 1960s and further validated the Big Bang theory over its chief rival, the steady state theory.\n\nThe Big Bang theory developed from observations and theoretical considerations. Observationally, it was determined that most spiral nebulae were receding from Earth, but those who made the observation weren't aware of the cosmological implications, nor that the supposed nebulae were actually galaxies outside our own Milky Way[3]. In 1927, the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the "explosion" of a "primeval atom"—what was later called the Big Bang[4].\n\nIn 1929, Edwin Hubble provided an observational basis for Lemaître's theory. He discovered that, relative to the Earth, the galaxies are receding in every direction at speeds directly proportional to their distance from the Earth. This fact is now known as Hubble's law [5]. Given the cosmological principle whereby the universe, when viewed on sufficiently large distance scales, has no preferred directions or preferred places, Hubble's law suggested that the universe was expanding contradicting the infinite and unchanging static universe scenario developed by Einstein.\n\nThis idea allowed for two opposing possibilities. One was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow. The other possibility was Fred Hoyle's steady state model in which new matter would be created as the galaxies moved away from each other. In this model, the universe is roughly the same at any point in time[6]. It was actually Hoyle who coined the name of Lemaître's theory, referring to it sarcastically as "this big bang idea" during a program broadcast on March 28, 1949 by the BBC Third Programme. Hoyle repeated the term in further broadcasts in early 1950, as part of a series of five lectures entitled The Nature of Things. The text of each lecture was published in The Listener a week after the broadcast, the first time that the term "big bang" appeared in print. [7]
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The can't see back to the big bang, but they can see its signatures and get a good idea of what it was exactly. The earliest signature they've seen back so far is ~380,000 years after the big bang. There probably are rays of light from 15 billion years ago still moving around, but if inflation is correct, then the actual image of the big bang has already passed across the universe very early in its history (solving the horizon problem) and we will never see it.
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After 1 to 3 minutes from the initial explosion of the cosmic egg (Big Bang), when temperature has cooled to about 3 trillion degrees kelvin, it is speculated that composite particles such as protons & neutrons become common state of matters.\nKey phenomena that support Big Bang Theory are:\n1) Universe is expanding, and from measurement of the proportional velocities of stars in relation to their distances from us, there is strong probability that an "Event" (such as Big Bang) occurred simultaneously,\n2) detection in 1964 of microwave radiation from not only one location in the universe (but from all directions at once), lends credence to the theory,\nShape/sizes of galaxies or rather the sizes of the galaxy clusters (to aid in estimating distance of faraway galaxies from us)nmay shed more light into the age of the universe as it is postulated that such galaxies and and milky way were at the same point in time at the time of explosion.