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Originally posted by BigBrotherDarkness
So please remind me exactly, how there was no such thing as space before "the" big bang?
What you postulate is a redistribution of matter and energy created by the big bang, not the creation of all matter, energy, and space time.
Maybe because you haven't bothered to look at the theory in any depth. The questions you're asking are among the simplest and there are explanations. You also don't seem to consider the fact that "empty space" actually is something.
If there was one big bang? Why is there specs of huddled masses called galaxies...with seemly nothing but empty space in between?
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by BigBrotherDarkness
So please remind me exactly, how there was no such thing as space before "the" big bang?
The Big Bang was not an explosion "in" space; it was an explosion "of" space.
Truthfully, I don't know what there was before the Big Bang. Maybe there WAS another universe before ours banged into existence -- than again, maybe there wasn't. The bottom line is that space itself was thought to be born out of the Big Bang -- not just that matter than fills space.
Before that, there may have been nothing (and "nothing" is not the same as "space").
...Or maybe there was some universe that collapsed into nothingness long before "our" Big Bang
...Or perhaps a universe from a different dimension leaked into our dimension, causing "our" Big Bang.
However, it's not as if space was already here, and the Big Bang just filled it with matter.
Originally posted by BigBrotherDarkness
reply to post by Phage
What you postulate is a redistribution of matter and energy created by the big bang, not the creation of all matter, energy, and space time.
Thermodynamics
Maybe because you haven't bothered to look at the theory in any depth. The questions you're asking are among the simplest and there are explanations. You also don't seem to consider the fact that "empty space" actually is something.
I am not asking these questions; I am provoking thought in others with the questions I have already thought about; and put forth as the topic you see before you. Not much of a surprise given the lack of comprehension that I did not mean empty space...if I may quote myself back into context, perhaps the word seemingly will take on meaning for you this time.
If there was one big bang? Why is there specs of huddled masses called galaxies...with seemly nothing but empty space in between?
seem·ing [see-ming]
1.
apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
noun
2.
appearance, especially outward or deceptive appearance.
I hope you enjoyed the fish; because this is the last I am feeding the resident troll.
In physical cosmology, the Big Crunch is one possible scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity or causing a reformation of the universe starting with another big bang.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by BigBrotherDarkness
Recently, there was a black hole that belched out a good amount of material.
Your premise is off to a bad start. No material is ejected from a black hole.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by BigBrotherDarkness
Recently, there was a black hole that belched out a good amount of material.
Your premise is off to a bad start. No material is ejected from a black hole.
Really? Where does it all go ? Black hols confuse me greatly lol