What Came 'Before' the Big Bang?

String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we live in was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision of two universes (which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time) that were attracted toward each other by the leaking of gravity out of one of the universes.
In their view of the universe the complexities of an inflating universe after a Big Bang are replaced by a universe that was already large. flat, and uniform with dark energy as the effect of the other universe constantly leaking gravity into our own and driving its acceleration. According to this theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets.
Turok and Steinhardt were inspired by a lecture given by Burt Ovrut who imagined two branes, universes like ours, separated by a tiny gap as tiny as 10-32 meters. There would be no communictaion between the two universes except for our parallel sister universe's gravitational pull, which could cross the tiny gap.
Orvut's theory could explain the effect of dark matter where areas of the universe are heavier than they should be given everything that's present. With their theory, the nagging problems surrounding the Big Bang (beginning from what, and caused how?) are replaced by an eternal cosmic cycle where dark energy is no longer a mysterious unknown quantity, but rather the very extra gravitational force that drives the universe to universe (brane-brane) interaction.

Amazing ...will we ever know? Is there a god? Why is the universe, life, death a such fucking mystery

If there is he God he's not keeping score anymore.

Nobby Cheese wrote:If there is he God he's not keeping score anymore.

How would anyone know

If he did ever exist I reckon he's dead now or he's found new interests.

Nobby Cheese wrote:If he did ever exist I reckon he's dead now or he's found new interests.

God lives inside your brain he is whatever you make him

Admin wrote:

Nobby Cheese wrote:If he did ever exist I reckon he's dead now or he's found new interests.

God lives inside your brain he is whatever you make him

Your being silly now

Have you just spoke to yourself there boat?

Nobby Cheese wrote:Have you just spoke to yourself there boat?

No i was speaking to god

The answer is San Marino

Actually, in theory, if the universe is an amalgam of spacetime and weak and strong natural forces, then it might be conceiveable that all these elements do not exist until they interact with each other at a subatomic level.

In consequence, they cannot exist uniquely but solely in conjunction with each other and either through random connection or actual design does an event arise and things exist.

Once that event occurs, the event feeds itself and expands as we know it now into the universe as it stands. So was it a "creator" or a random conjunction? Well, no, it was neither. Because the one force in the universe that unites it all is clear from anyone who grew up around demonstrative advertising in the '70s. The big bang was essentially down to that bloke in the boiler suit and glasses who was flown over the East River held up by the unifying universal force of Solvite.

I will know if you steal my theory, you fucking cunts. Just warning you, that's all.

The big bang was essentially down to that bloke in the boiler suit and glasses who was flown over the East River held up by the unifying universal force of Solvite.

It's true, Tony
Basic Forces:
Strong, Electromagnetic, Weak, Graham Norton, Gravitational, Solvite and Lager.