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Was the big bang really the start of everything?

What Came Before The Big Bang?

Ever heard of the big bounce, the big bulk, or the big black hole bang? A form of 'nothing' came before the big bang. But what if 'nothing' actually meant something? Dr Josie Peters and a team of scientists explain.

[daxxonjabiru]

"Humans are at their most endearing when they attempt to understand subjects beyond their reasoning skills." -Anon

[arp]

Option 2 is beyond me, I just can't imagine that (litteraly). Options 1 and 3 both have the same problem, both propose cycli but it has to have started at one time, there would have to be a first to the cycles, right? What could have started the very first cycle?

[TunaFreeDolphinMeat]

Been a big fan of the cyclical black hole theory for many years. All that energy and matter and information swallowed up and into a singularity which then explodes into another big bang and universe. Still, it does little to explain what came before the first big bang.

[piqotube]

I can believe the black hole theory because I always wondered where all information 'matter' goes. If this theory is true then we have an infinity of universes and there is no limit to space & time which is INSANE.

[Oxol]

The problem with this line of questioning is that without evidence, it stops being science.

[limcritiques]

Speaks how mature I am when the first thing that popped into my mind after reading the title of the video was "your dad"

[skshred]

I don't think we've got the slightest clue to be honest. Take Haldane's quote: "The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, it's stranger than we can suppose."

We've got fun speculation, but it might take thousands more years of new physics to perhaps understand something of it. A dog doesn't know what differential equations are. Likewise, how could we know or apprehend ultimate questions like these?

[Poootie]

For the bounce theory, it explains how a contracting singularity bounces into expansion and creates the universe as we know it. But it doesn't explain how an expanding universe bounces backwards and shrinks back into a singularity. For that to happen, space and vacuum (possibly even dark matter) must lose energy over time and reach a finite limit in order to shrink back.

For the big black hole theory, for it to "spit out" the universe, that black hole must first be immensely large and powerful to have sucked in all the matter in the entire universe from elsewhere first. Thus, implying that an infinitely larger universe exists beyond ours that contains all matter known to us in this universe, and possibly more.

[SojournerDidimus]

What I like about this channel is how it shows us the things we do *not* know. This video for example demonstrates how we are unable to "solve" the problem of the big bang in a natural way.

[liamtubsy]

Don’t say it,
don’t say it,
don’t say it,


… the Big Black Hole Bang, hey? 😏

[ryanstv]

What is "nothing"?

Wait till you get inside of my brain.

[rimacalid]

If no answer is found then the creation answer makes sense actually.

[hugogrilo]

"Where do we come from?
"I don't know if the question even makes sense."
Well...that wraps it up perfectly

[Mark-zohs]

Multiverse makes more sense in some cases. There is more than one of the same thing in our Universe so why should our Universe itself be the only one.

[NoOorZ]

None of them really try to answer where did energy / matter come from. All are based on fact that energy / matter created big bang. Only thing that differs is what big bang was.
I'm more interested about "how would energy appear from nothing" not "how unimaginably huge amount of energy created the big bang"

[andybeans]

I like Penrose's CCC, it doesn't rely upon a "bounce" after some mythical contraction that our current accelerating expansion doesn't predict. It too plays around with the concept of nothing, namely that without matter scale doesn't mean anything and a heat-dead universe becomes equivalent to a pre-BB one.

[coocoomonster]

As an American, this is easier to digest with a British accent narrator. Weird Science.

[tanvar]

This cloth just came by itself, got tailored and I woke up wearing it!!!

[Vincent_C]

The most brilliant minds on earth: " I have no f'ing idea." The possibilities are mind-blowing.

[emmanuelweinman]

At the end when the guy says “I don’t even know if the question makes sense” is the best answer of the whole video. Only relative beginnings make sense. An absolute beginning makes no sense. In my mind, there was never nothing.