How about before BIG BANG ?

[abhishek.g]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

[Quartx]

Have fun reading this http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-beginning-of-time.html

[LuanX3]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

it was a tiny ball of energy and matter, all together, and the universe is still expanding

[Fortify]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

it was a tiny ball of energy and matter, all together, and the universe is still expanding

Yes, at the moment all the energy in the universe is spreading out forever but at one point it was all contained inside a small dot. At some point the edges of the universe will collapse and the implosion will collapse into a small highly dense ball again. The cycles involved take billions or trillions of years to happen. This is one theory, there may be many others.

[poptok1]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

it was a tiny ball of energy and matter, all together, and the universe is still expanding

According to string theory there wasn't any " dot ". Nothing that can be described as material
or real existed before BB. Particular singularity happened which were huge "brans" (extra-dimensional hyper membranes of pure energy) colliding with each other. Two of them crashing on 11th dimensional space-time (not)continuum. Result of this crash was big-bang. 

[notbatman]

Before the BIG BANG the Earth was flat. Then about five hundred years ago some clowns who loved little children made a joke and told the kids they were living on a ball. The kids all laughed as they knew the clowns were just making fun.

As time went on the clowns came up with more jokes and told the kids their grandparents were monkeys, that a terrible giant lizard called a dinosaur laid an egg that hatched a chicken and about a magical force called gravity. The clowns then delivered the final punch line that spun the whole charade together, the father of all jokes, the BIG BANG!

Today the clowns are worshiped as gods, everybody takes their jokes seriously and the masses give them all their children to love.

[samlanhan1]

A Huge Black Nothingness probably or a another society of beings that was destroyed so we could be created. Who really knows , any theory is possible.

[abhishek.g]

No matter whether its a "DOT" theory or "String" theory , the questions remains still the same what "Before" "that" ? Dot might contain all matter and minerals , but what about universe ? What is it all about ? At the same time when you will think about yourself, you will get confused about who you actually are .

[Gleb Gamow]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

it was a tiny ball of energy and matter, all together, and the universe is still expanding

Inside or sans a dome? If inside, what alien race painted the underside of the dome to mimic a nonexistent universe?

[bitbunnny]

Whas there even a universe before the big bang? They say that universe has no limits but there must be some kind of boundaries. Could universe explode or something and exist no more? How many stars are in the universe? Can we conquer universe? I have so many questions about this subject but at this moment we still don't have the answer.

[BADecker]

The only before Big Bang is before Hawking. Big Bang is science fiction.   

[catch.me.if.you.can]

How do you know that there was a big bang?

[Dinki]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

Sincerely speaking, that is one question science has no answer to. We will have to die, go to heaven and ask God ourselves.

[BADecker]

How do you know that there was a big bang?

What do you mean? After all, Google it. Wikipedia has articles on it. Of course, it didn't exist before Hawking invented it, did it?

[Gleb Gamow]

Before the BIG BANG the Earth was flat. Then about five hundred years ago some clowns who loved little children made a joke and told the kids they were living on a ball. The kids all laughed as they knew the clowns were just making fun.

As time went on the clowns came up with more jokes and told the kids their grandparents were monkeys, that a terrible giant lizard called a dinosaur laid an egg that hatched a chicken and about a magical force called gravity. The clowns then delivered the final punch line that spun the whole charade together, the father of all jokes, the BIG BANG!

Today the clowns are worshiped as gods, everybody takes their jokes seriously and the masses give them all their children to love.

Steven King, a CIA/NSA recruit, penned the following 1986 classic to prepare the populace for the Internet of Things on the horizon (prospectively speaking, of course). After the advent of the Internet, the last remaining obstacle was the flow of IT's moneys - Bitcoin et al. - before the IoT takes over everybody's lives. Luckily, there's a secret group only known as the AnonAnons trying to reteach what was once the general consensus - the Earth is not a globe - with hopes of thwarting the pending doom. HAHAHA ( Leroy Fodor the Clown laugh)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(character)

It, also known as Pennywise The Dancing Clown or Bob Gray, is the title character and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It. It is a shapeshifting demonic entity, who every twenty-seven years preys on the local children from Derry, Maine, and, in order to kill them, takes the form of It's victims' greatest and most terrifying phobias. Not only can It shapeshift, but also manipulate people to achieve It's own evil aims, and even possess someone's mind.

[GamingBro]

Smth that was BANGed also was "universe" i think. But i don't like theory like this anyway.

[Gleb Gamow]

How do you know that there was a big bang?

What do you mean? After all, Google it. Wikipedia has articles on it. Of course, it didn't exist before Hawking invented it, did it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Children.27s_fiction

Children's fiction

Co-written with his daughter Lucy.

George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007)
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009)
George and the Big Bang (2011)
George and the Unbreakable Code (2014)

By George! I've uncovered that Satoshi Nakamoto is none other than Stephen and Lucy Hawking.

[Vod]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

I believe the universe is larger than just what happened after the big bang.

I believe we are like bubbles on an infinite pond.  Bubbles "pop" into existence via big bangs, then slowly over trillions of years decay and eventually get reabsorbed into the pond.  What we call the universe is just one of these bubbles.

[bitcoinboy12]

So, everyone knows the very supposed theory of BIG BANG after which universe has been expanding till date . But the question that arises is :

How the universe was before BIG BANG ? How vast is universe ?

I believe the universe is larger than just what happened after the big bang.

I believe we are like bubbles on an infinite pond.  Bubbles "pop" into existence via big bangs, then slowly over trillions of years decay and eventually get reabsorbed into the pond.  What we call the universe is just one of these bubbles.

Sleeping.. Before the bigbang. We are basically sleeping energies and matter awaiting to form.

[Evildrum]

Read some one say space is infinite but they have been talking lately of how its actually shrinking.
Before the big bang I started my car, maybe it backfired!
We still have religions telling us what happened and people believing, so the answer is still far out.

[Vod]

Read some one say space is infinite but they have been talking lately of how its actually shrinking.
Before the big bang I started my car, maybe it backfired!
We still have religions telling us what happened and people believing, so the answer is still far out.

As long as there are gullible people, there will always be religion.

I'm thankful for religion because the scammers tend to target them, and not me.   

[notbatman]

How do you know that there was a big bang?

What do you mean? After all, Google it. Wikipedia has articles on it. Of course, it didn't exist before Hawking invented it, did it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Children.27s_fiction

Children's fiction

Co-written with his daughter Lucy.

George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007)
George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (2009)
George and the Big Bang (2011)
George and the Unbreakable Code (2014)

By George! I've uncovered that Satoshi Nakamoto is none other than Stephen and Lucy Hawking.

I recall (and many others) George being a monkey and snatching the man in the yellow hat's hat with his tail. Now George is a small boy in a jumpsuit (no tail) who continually gets into trouble with a strange older man...

If this is what they're doing with the CERN LHC it really needs a bunker buster or two.

[knightkon]

I am new to this thread, but I have to insist that reruns of Seinfeld are on before the BIG BANG!!  It is a great show and all.  I have to say that I am all for a new season.  Sheldon is just always something else!

[the joint]

The simple answer is that it's a bad question.  If the Big Bang results in the emergence of spaceTIME, then there is no "before" to speak of.

The complex answer depends upon an understanding of points of spacetime in superposition (e.g. the moment of the Big Bang constitutes one such point), thereby removing the constraints that a linear interpretation of time imposes upon it.  Because stating the answer both with or without an explanation will draw criticism, and because not stating an answer may also draw criticism after these introductory comments, I think I'll just