I'm not trying to make into some kind of battleground between religious people and Atheists but can someone explain what was before the Big Bang and how something came out of nothing?
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The origin of the components of the universe is unknown to science.
Many point to the big bang as the origin of everything, but the big bang does not address the issue of origin. It is the process of expansion and is still visibly in progress.
The evidence found so far does not indicate the origin of the components for the universe, nor does the evidence tell us anything of events occurring before its expansion. Rather than repeatedly reciting this qualifying sentence, the big bang is often simply referred to (incorrectly) as the beginning or "creation" of the universe. Television documentaries do not bother to make the distinction. Though not technically correct, for most practical discussions of the physics of the universe, this is okay. For discussions on the origin of the universe, the error is unacceptable.
Guesses and ideas on the origin of the universe are plentiful but scientifically unsubstantiated. There are many religions that have their own explanation although most reject all other explanations but their own.
► Although some suggestions have the start of the big bang as the start of the universe, there is no scientific requirement for or against an infinitely long past.
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Many point to the big bang as the origin of everything, but the big bang does not address the issue of origin. It is the process of expansion and is still visibly in progress.
The evidence found so far does not indicate the origin of the components for the universe, nor does the evidence tell us anything of events occurring before its expansion. Rather than repeatedly reciting this qualifying sentence, the big bang is often simply referred to (incorrectly) as the beginning or "creation" of the universe. Television documentaries do not bother to make the distinction. Though not technically correct, for most practical discussions of the physics of the universe, this is okay. For discussions on the origin of the universe, the error is unacceptable.
Guesses and ideas on the origin of the universe are plentiful but scientifically unsubstantiated. There are many religions that have their own explanation although most reject all other explanations but their own.
► Although some suggestions have the start of the big bang as the start of the universe, there is no scientific requirement for or against an infinitely long past.
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"Before" the Big Bang doesn't make sense in our universe. Time (and space) began with the expansion of the Big Bang. Some scientists think that the entire quantum energy of our universe started out as a dimensionless singularity that has expanded ever since, therefore was not "created". Others think the Big Bang was an extreme version of the natural spontaneous generation of matter from vacuum energy that happens constantly at the quantum level. Still others regard the Big Bang as an energy eruption that was the result of a collision between two interdimensional "branes". And some even think the Big Bang was the death throe of a theoretical "white hole". But in no case was there "nothing".