What Happened Before the Big Bang?

[AgentX]

There was no material for the Big Bang. Big Bang was the first spatiotemporal event. Everything before that was non-spatiotemporal. There was no time or matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekpyrotic_universe

[C.Puffs]

There was no material for the Big Bang. Big Bang was the first spatiotemporal event. Everything before that was non-spatiotemporal. There was no time or matter.

Sounds like a physicist's way of saying, "uhhh. . . ." If matter and mass could be spontaneously created at the event then why not now? Run the clock all the way back and at what point do physical laws become reality and why? Where is the point which before there is no matter and after there is? If everything was pure energy what was the source of it?

[tercio67]

All that does is expand the question. Doesn't really answer it.

Why does the Möbius band even exist?

To start with the question "Where did the material for the big bang to occur come from?" is making an assumption about (that) material in the first place.

Untill we understand what happened we'll never know for sure and theorising is our only option.
So my answer is: energy converted into matter. As the how, why and when of that proces...

[PEMM]

What created the energy dude?

I like the "Duck Egg" theory.

[tercio67]

What created the energy dude?

A catastrophic contraction of all mater...

[C.Puffs]

Why does the Möbius band even exist?

To start with the question "Where did the material for the big bang to occur come from?" is making an assumption about (that) material in the first place.

Untill we understand what happened we'll never know for sure and theorising is our only option.
So my answer is: energy converted into matter. As the how, why and when of that proces...

Matter can be created out of energy (that's how antimatter is created) but then it brings up the whole "why is everything matter instead of 50% matter 50% antimatter" question. Where did all the antimatter go?

[C.Puffs]

A catastrophic contraction of all mater...

Even if the universe were cyclical why is there something instead of nothing? Why is the friggin' sky blue?

[tercio67]

Matter can be created out of energy (that's how antimatter is created) but then it brings up the whole "why is everything matter instead of 50% matter 50% antimatter" question. Where did all the antimatter go?

Space isn't empty.

[PEMM]

Answer is still, we dont know.

No matter how much we debate here drunk, we wont be any closer knowing.

[AgentX]

In the meanwhile, the expressed reaction of REAL scientists:
<my educated opinion: a meme>

Come back when you have finished your studies and can hold your own water in a ten-minutes debate concerning the epistemology of science.

[The Left Hand of God]

Matter can be created out of energy (that's how antimatter is created) but then it brings up the whole "why is everything matter instead of 50% matter 50% antimatter" question. Where did all the antimatter go?

But isn't there a huge loss of energy dissipated in the form of heat and radiation when you collide particles at near-luminal speeds?

[tercio67]

Even if the universe were cyclical why is there something instead of nothing?

Why not?

Why is the friggin' sky blue?

It isn't, the human eye just perceives it that way.

[artjomh]

If everything was pure energy what was the source of it?

What created the energy dude?

Um, first law of thermodynamics? Energy is not a thing. It's not created.

A simple way of thinking of the big bang is that all matter has always existed as a compressed sub-atomic particle sized ball. Because this "ball" had the mass of everything, it compressed time to the point where time didn't exist. Suddenly, that ball started inflating, hence our Universe. Eventually, that Universe will begin to contract into a "ball" state.

[Dirtydiaper]

I dont know. Thereby God made it.

[tercio67]

Actually, I think we made god. For we don't know.