Can evolutionists explain what was the catalyst involved in the sudden appearance of the universe from nothing
what process was involved in the appearance of the universe be it big bang steady state or other just before it came into existance
what process was involved in the appearance of the universe be it big bang steady state or other just before it came into existance
injanier
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Evolutionists will tell you they're biologists, and to go bother a cosmologist with your question. The cosmologist will tell you that there is no way to determine what conditions (if any) existed before the Big Bang. In general, the question of what was there before the universe is meaningless. Time and space exist only within the confines of the universe, so references to "before" or "outside" the universe have no meaning.
There has been speculation that the creation of our universe was part of of some larger process - a metaverse of many universes, or a recurring cycle of creation and destruction. But these ideas remain speculation - we can't find any way to confirm or deny them with physical evidence.
TychaBrahe
First of all, you need to ask a cosmologist.
There is an equation in quantum mechanics called the Heisenberg uncertainty. It says that delta(n) * delta(p) <=h-bar. When people say that one of the things about quantum mechanics is that you can't know where something is (n) and where it's going (p) at the same time, that is the equation that they are talking about.
If you play around with the equation a bit, you get the same thing in a different form: delta(E) * delta(t) <= h-bar. This equation says that the universe forgives small imbalances in net Energy, so long as they occupy very little time. The quantum foam, the emptiness between particles, is full of pairs of particles and their antiparticles (e.g., protons and antiprotons, electrons and posistrons, etc.) that spring up out of nowhere and collapse into each other again. The net energy in the Universe changes slightly, but only for a short time, so the Universe doesn't notice.
Except that sometimes, these virtual particles interact with what we think of as real particles, causing changes.
And sometimes (per Stephen Hawking) it happens too close to a black hole, and one virtual particle gets sucked into the event horizon, leaving the other one, mateless, to become part of the real Universe. Thus do blackholes lose energy and evaporate.
Now, here's where all this is going. The net energy of the Universe is pretty low. Low enough that the time it could exist could be quite long and still be allowed under the Heisenberg uncertainty. Especially as shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe underwent a period of rapid inflation that rendered its components too far apart to return to the initial singularity state.
The fascinating thing about this is that if our theories are correct (and all evidence points to their being so) then this spontaneous creation of matter can happen anywhere and at any time. The metaverse might be filled with island universes as large as our or larger, where the laws of chemistry and physics might differ radically from our own. Some suggest that a wormhole such as might be built by the rotating singularity of a black hole might lead to another universe. Some say that this could never happen unless the two universes were fundamentally similar in physical laws.
Some say we can never touch these universes. They might lie atop our Universe, as close to one page in a book to another, but separated in a dimension that we cannot perceive, much like the two men on the upper stairway in MC Escher's Relativity. http://www.inspiredeconomies.com/treasurechest/images/MC%20Escher%20-%20Relativity.jpg
Sunday P
They are two different types of sciences. One explains the species of life on our tiny planet. The other is the explination of the beginnings of the universe as we know it.
The new science on the matter is a complicated one called string theory. Saying all atoms are made of tiny vibrating strings all moving and vibrating at different pitches to create everything. The universe may be made of giant membranes that when these membranes collide they spark matter thus creating our universe. The weird thing is they keep coming up with multi-universes. We are not alone and the universe is stranger than we can ever know. What if there is a universe inside every atom? If we could look so far into the small we will start to see galaxies that would be a trip. I don't think we suddenly came from nothing, we just can't grasp the concepts yet. We are infants in this sort of thing. If we don't kill our selves with technology I'd love for humans to one day solve the mystery of the universe. Google up string theory and see if you can get a better understanding, its tough stuff. I don't think I explain it all right.
minuteblue
Probably not because your question really doesn't have anything to do with evolution.
Evolution does not deal with the beginning of the universe. That field of study falls within the realm of cosmology.
Cosmology is a highly theoretical field which involves complex mathematical concepts. Cosmologist often have no way to test their theories, especially when they are dealing with things that happened before the existance of the universe as we know it.
One theory, called membrane theory, theorizes that the current universe formed by the collision of two membranes which existed in other dimentions. The collision created the 3D dimention and mass is the overlapping of the membranes.
Of course this is a weak theory. There is no way to test it as of yet and it is only one of a few theories.
No cosmologist actually believes the universe came from nothing. That would be like living in a cup of water and knowing nothing outside of the cup of water and saying the water came from nowhere when in actuality, it was poured from a pitcher which exists outside the cup.
LUKI
evolutionists??? do you mean cosmologists? Nobody knows how the universe came to be. I don't think science can answer this question because as I understand it, science deals with the physical world and all its properties. If I may rephrase your question, I think you're asking, "what jump- started the physical universe?" Maybe there is no beginning and no end. The concept of a beginning and an end is a human concept. The physical universe is perpetually in motion even before the beginning of time as we know it(the big bang). Something(space quakes) stirred this supermassive condensed ball of matter and caused it to explode and expand. You don't know that there was nothing before the big bang. You're assuming that non-matter somehow became matter. This is the stuff that cosmologists and theologists brainstorm over and you know what, nobody knows.