Something coming from nothing doesn't make sense.
I agree, it has never made sense to me.
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_bang.html
Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.
Being widely accepted does not make it true.
http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm
One of the most persistently asked questions has been: How was the universe created? Many once believed that the universe had no beginning or end and was truly infinite. Through the inception of the Big Bang theory, however,no longer could the universe be considered infinite. The universe was forced to take on the properties of a finite phenomenon, possessing a history and a beginning.
At one time many believed the universe had no beginning or end and was truly infinite.
Then the Big Bang theory killed that idea.
The Big Bang theory is everything had a beginning, with a history.
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The story begins with the theoretical foundations laid by Einstein and his General Theory of Relativity. But it was Georges Lematre, a Catholic priest from Belgium, who proposed the idea of a universe born at a single instant in the past - "a day without a yesterday" - and expanding outwards from that moment.
A day without a yesterday. Sounds like nothing existed before.
Origins: CERN: Ideas: The Big Bang | Exploratorium
There's another important quality of the Big Bang that makes it unique. While an explosion of a man-made bomb expands through air, the Big Bang did not expand through anything. That's because there was no space to expand through at the beginning of time. Rather, physicists believe the Big Bang created and stretched space itself, expanding the universe.
The Big Bang did not expand through anything. That leaves nothing.
There was no space.
The Big Bang created space and stretched it.
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Approximately 13.7 billion years ago, the entirety of our universe was compressed into the confines of an atomic nucleus. Known as a singularity, this is the moment before creation when space and time did not exist. According to the prevailing cosmological models that explain our universe, an ineffable explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature on any measurement scale, that was infinitely dense, created not only fundamental subatomic particles and thus matter and energy but space and time itself. Cosmology theorists combined with the observations of their astronomy colleagues have been able to reconstruct the primordial chronology of events known as the big bang.
This is the moment before creation when space and time did not exist.
An ineffable explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature...
Created not only fundamental subatomic particles and thus matter and energy but space and time itself.
Thus all particles, matter, energy, space and time itself was created at the moment of Big Bang.
If these things did not exist before the Big Bang, then there was nothing.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/bang.html
The Big Bang marks the instant at which the universe began, when space and time came into existence and all the matter in the cosmos started to expand.
The instant the universe began, when time and space came into existence.
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The night sky presents the viewer with a picture of a calm and unchanging Universe. Therefore, the discovery by Edwin Hubble, in 1929, that the Universe is in fact expanding at an enormous speed, was a revolutionary one. Hubble noted that galaxies outside our own Milky Way were all moving away from us, each at a speed proportional to its distance away from us. Most importantly, this meant that there must have been an instant in time (now known to be about 14 billion years ago) when the entire Universe was contained in a single point in space. The Universe must have been born in this single violent event which came to be known as the "Big Bang."
This meant that there must have been an instant in time (now known to be about 14 billion years ago) when the entire Universe was contained in a single point in space.
But there was no space for the single point to be as space did not exist according to the Big Bang theory. See quotes above.
Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible | Space
The Big Bang is often thought as the start of everything, including time, making any questions about what happened during it or beforehand nonsensical. Recently scientists have instead suggested the Big Bang might have just been the explosive beginning of the current era of the universe, hinting at a mysterious past.
The Big Bang is often thought as the start of everything, including time,
Everything means there was nothing before.
Modulous it is time for science to do science and dump the Big Bang theory.
Mod, I am just a simple farm boy, who was not educated in the sciences. But I do know that in my lifetime I have never seen something come from nothing.
Aristotle, taking the no-beginning side, invoked the principle that out of nothing, nothing comes. If the universe could never have gone from nothingness to somethingness, it must always have existed.
I agree with Aristotle, that it has always been. When I studied Hebrew and Chaldee we discussed Genesis 1:1 throughly.
My understanding from the Hebrew and Chaldee, that Genesis 1:1 infers that in the realm or sphere of the beginnings God literally tore from Himself the entire universe.
Modulous writes:
the singularity did not appear it is simply a coordinate in spacetime. Just like north is a coordinate on earth-surface and there is no north of north (I believe this analogy was first put forward by Hawking).
But according to all the statements concerning the Big bang theory above there was no space or time. That means there was either something there or nothing was there.
Not from me - I say there must be an entity that exists without creation.
Here you are saying there is an entity that was in existence before the Big Bang.
I find it quite astonishing that I can write so much, even adding a reference for you, and you still think that the Big Bang with singularity model proposes something coming from nothing!
You are not shouting as loud as all these other references I find.
Let me sum up before the Big Bang:
There was no space.
There was no time.
There was no particles.
There was no matter.
There was no subatomic particles.
There was no energy.
If all these things were created during the Big Bang and did not exist before please explain:
What did exist?
How you could have an explosion of trillions of degrees in temperature without energy?
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