Before The Big Bang

[poliphilo]

According to Horizon it's no longer scientifically illiterate to wonder what happened before the Big Bang. A convenor asked a room full of mega brains, "Who believes there was something before the Big Bang?" and every hand went up- though some only to half mast. There are many theories to be considered. The one that sticks with me- probably because its so simple- is that the universe expands, contracts and expands again- like breathing in and out. 

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Yes well, if time started at the Big Bang, then by definition there was nothing "before" it. Simples. Although I can't get my head round it either.

I think it is more interesting to ask "If once there was nothing, what caused the Big Bang?"

[jenny_evergreen]

That last one is what I have always believed, so I do rather hope it turns out that way. But I'm open to whatever reality is!

[ccord.livejournal.com]

The one that sticks with me- probably because its so simple- is that the universe expands, contracts and expands again- like breathing in and out.

This is a fairly classic one, in some regards, isn't it? Sort of an updated version of the Stoic conflagration.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

There would still have to be a beginning, somehow. I cannot believe that the universe "originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere".

[michael john grist (from livejournal.com)]

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