After studying Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, reading Richard Dawkins “The God Delusion” and watching approximately 100 Discovery Channel specials about Stephen Hawkings and the origin of the universe, I have a firm understanding of the Big Bang and evolutionary theory.
While I understand evolution just fine, I’m fuzzy on the whole Big Bang part, specifically, what started it all? According to the cosmological model, in the beginning all matter in the universe was condensed into a tiny ball the size of say, an atom. Then it exploded in the Big Bang.
My question is “Who or what created this primeval atom?”
I’m not critical of science for not having an answer yet. I’m amazed at all the things that have been discovered and explained so far. But asking this one question is like having a discussion with my 5-year-old daughter: Daddy, where did that car come from? From a factory. Where did the factory come from? People built it. Where did people come from? And you just keep going till you get to that tiny atom.
I’ve read about parallel universes, multiverses and even cyclic universes, the latter which essentially theorizes that the Big Bang happens over and over again ad infinitum. In short, the universe begins when a tiny atom containing everything explodes in a Big Bang, then all matter expands for a trillion years until everything dilutes away before contracting in a so-called big crunch, forming another tiny atom – the beginnings of the next Big Bang. In this theory, space and time exist forever. The Big Bang is not the beginning of time; rather, it is a bridge between the Big Bang before it and the one after it. It’s like a perpetual Big Bang party.
Regardless, what created the very beginning of it all? I wonder if the answer is so fantastic that it will force us to adopt a new way of perceiving reality – or if science will ever answer this question.
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