has anybody wondered WHY the big bang happened and why anything exists at all. I mean people are always talking about the big bang and it was a huge explosion but nobody asked WHY
I hope this answers : The universe began, scientists believe, with every speck of its energy jammed into a very tiny point. This extremely dense point exploded with unimaginable force, creating matter and propelling it outward to make the billions of galaxies of our vast universe. Astrophysicists dubbed this titanic explosion the Big Bang.
@Chandu1432 Kinda mixing science and philosophy aren't you?Why is a human construct,the universe doesn't have to have a reason.
But yeah, I've wondered that myself.
But yeah, I've wondered that myself.
After thinking of it for decades, I reached the conclusion that it is not possible to answer to that question, things just happen to exist.
@FC-in-the-UK said in #4:
> After thinking of it for decades, I reached the conclusion that it is not possible to answer to that question, things just happen to exist.
I think we're just entering an age where many answers of the past thought of as impossible to answer are just being answered, so I wouldn't be too rushed to say such a thing. Anyway even though I'm not a physicist the most "in depth" thing I've heard about the cause of the Big Bang is virtual particles (not that I fully grasp the concept of virtual particles)
> After thinking of it for decades, I reached the conclusion that it is not possible to answer to that question, things just happen to exist.
I think we're just entering an age where many answers of the past thought of as impossible to answer are just being answered, so I wouldn't be too rushed to say such a thing. Anyway even though I'm not a physicist the most "in depth" thing I've heard about the cause of the Big Bang is virtual particles (not that I fully grasp the concept of virtual particles)
@Bill_Likes_Chess we can always ask more why's and get more because's but it's an endless race. The big bang happened because of virtual particles? Why are ther virtual particles? There are virtual particles because of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? Why is there an Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? And so on and so forth.
Of course along the way, we get more knowledge about the nature of reality. Maybe we can hope to eventually answer the question "What is real?". But that does not answer the fundamental question "Why is anything real?". It's an endless race, at some point we just have to ACCEPT that something is real and that there isn't a reason for it, or if there is one we can't know it (the same way that in maths, at some point we have to rely on unproven axioms, because it is not possible to prove something from nothing).
Of course along the way, we get more knowledge about the nature of reality. Maybe we can hope to eventually answer the question "What is real?". But that does not answer the fundamental question "Why is anything real?". It's an endless race, at some point we just have to ACCEPT that something is real and that there isn't a reason for it, or if there is one we can't know it (the same way that in maths, at some point we have to rely on unproven axioms, because it is not possible to prove something from nothing).
@FC-in-the-UK Ιndeed for now our logic is based on axioms, maybe there will be a time when we have proof for everything that we just call common sense for now
The always ask why is the big bang, but never how is the big bang.
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The reason why the big bang occurred is the most likely because if we reverse time, the universe would logically shrink until it would become a tiny point. From that point forward, the tiny point expanded, which is the big bang theory.
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The reason why the big bang occurred is the most likely because if we reverse time, the universe would logically shrink until it would become a tiny point. From that point forward, the tiny point expanded, which is the big bang theory.
There are theories that nothing exists at all. Thoughts which create themselves like a simulation. Pretty complicated stuff.
Where does everything exist? I haven't noticed anything yet!
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