• Question: What happened before the big bang?

    Asked by sarahsiddique to Lyn, Katy, Paul, PB, Ruth on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Peter Balfe

      Peter Balfe answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      The quiet sound of God saying “Whoops!”

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      Ruth Mitchell answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Good question! No-one knows. This is one of the reasons I believe there is a God: how can matter come from nothing?? The Bible says: “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters”. But the creation of the world definitely wasn’t a mistake on God’s part of Him loosing control – God knew what He was doing.

    • Photo: Katy Brown

      Katy Brown answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Who knows! I’ve only ever learned about things since biological organisms started to exist.
      I guess there were lots of gases and lots of pressure.

    • Photo: Paul Waines

      Paul Waines answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      I’m not sure we’ll ever know for sure, although the physicists are sure to come up with some theories. The idea of the big bang in itself is incredible…
      Maybe someone in a gigantic parallel universe lit a firework and counted ‘3, 2, 1…’

    • Photo: Ee Lyn Lim

      Ee Lyn Lim answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      I think right now ‘the Big Bang’ is what most scientists consider to be ‘the beginning of time’! It’s basically the birth of the universe. But it’s called a ‘Big Bang’ because we have a theory that the universe was extremely hot and extremely dense to begin with, and it then expanded – or exploded – with a BANG! and the energy that was released in this expansion is what makes up all the atoms in the universe today. But then where did this energy come from? Why was it hot and dense in the first place? What made it that way? Nobody knows…

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