by Lethargio

Created on: November 30, 2007   Last Updated: March 18, 2012

This question for the thinking person, or the person that has even bothered to take an ACTIVE interest in the universe ( i believe the "Big Man" idea is an inactive, rather apathetic outlook on the origin of the cosmos), the Big Bang was the beginning of time and space.

"Where did the big bang come from then?" asks the person who has no idea of the Big Bang theory. I will explain why this question is misguided.

The Big Bang, the singularity at the beginning of space, time and matter is by principle impossible to get beyond, or go further back than. As the Big Bang (now the BB) created time itself, it is important to know that anything before would not have been "before" in our sense, every act "before" the BB would take place at the same time as the BB because there is, as i have said, no time, so no sense of distance or interval between any two events.

Quantum Mechanics gives a new look into the BB theory, and lends a new if slightly bizarre (as is the QM style) on the BB. The Many worlds interpretation of QM states that in any quantum event the universe splits and instead of one outcome happening, EVERY outcome happens and they take place in separate universes. Flip a coin and both sides land facing upwards, its just that you are in the one where maybe heads lands facing up. So this gives the view that if everything must happen, then in one universe there would be a singularity at the beginning of the universe, and in one parallel world there would not be, and therefore no universe.

There is no question as to whether the BB occurred, as no-one (except a religious fundamentalist) would question the extreme weight of theory and experimental observation that equates to a BB singularity.

"So why is the universe so perfectly set-up for life?"

If a Neutron was only slightly heavier, atoms could not form and so matter could not and so planets could not and so we could not. But seeing as we are here it seems that this did not happen, and that we are in a habitable universe. Just about. The reason atoms are so perfect and are not botched is due to how they form, through quarks interacting at extremely high temperature. The way they bond is to only bring about the atomic nuclei we know of today, it is impossible for then to form in any other.

If we look at our universe as a whole it is not a very nice place; stars implode, solar systems collapse, comets collide with planets, it is a very violent place for life to develop, which is why we have not, and will not inhabit this earth and universe forever. Life on earth has been around for 3 billion years if that, and will be here for a further few billion at which point the sun will die, and so will we.

So imagine; you are a supreme being. A perfect creator incapable of fault. You decide to create the most perfect universe ever, as you can do nothing but create perfect things! so you create a universe full of violent collisions, faulty solar systems, solar storms etc and you create a planet for life that is dommed to be burnt to a crisp after a few billion years. The life on this planet must kill other inahbitants just to survive, and if one species dies at the bottom of the food-chain, they all do. It seems that this world is not perfect, and any perfect and supreme being would laugh at it. Lets drop the ancient mysticism and look fowards, not upwards towards Gods, upwards towards ignorance.

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