THE BIG BANG

Before the Big Bang

• 1. Can time and matter exist one without the other? It would be impossible to think of an event and not place some time value with it. In order for an event or action to take place an atom, or atoms, has to be present. And in order for some action to take place with that atom or atoms, some time will be needed. Nothing can happen without time. Now imagine a universe that has absolutely no matter at all in it. Not even one sub atomic particle. How, then, could time be measured? We measure time by its effects on matter. But with no matter around to use as a guide, is there any time then? This is the same principle as trying to observe quantum particles. You could never study this effect because once you showed up in our atom free universe time would begin.
• 2. As I have mentioned before, not force or information can travel as fast as the speed of light let along exceed it, but that is in the universe as we know it now. But if there is no time out side of the super dense object, which started the Big Bang, then matter traveling faster than the speed of light would not be breaking any of Einstein's Theories. As a matter of fact, no matter how fast the universe is expanding on the "inside" where we exist, outside of the universe ,on the very edge of the expansion of matter, the universe is not expanding at all!
• 3. How could this be? Our universe is moving on the "inside" and not on the "outside"? Lets look at it in this way. Motion is a measure of the change in position of two points relative to each other. If the distance between two points changes or those two point change in distance relative to a "stationary" point, you then have motion. If you then measure the rate at which the relative positions are changing, you now have time. A car's speed traveling down a free way can be deduced by measuring how long it takes to move from point A to point B, where points A and B are fixed. If you already know the speed of the car you can measure the amount of time if takes for the car to travel between points A and B to calculate the distance between the two points. Before the Big Bang Happened, when the entire universe was only the size of an atom, there was a point A but there was no point B. Point B was created and is still being created as the universe expands. Lets go back to our car on the freeway. Imagine that the car's motion represents the expansion of our universe. The car is at point A when is starts out on it trip. You can never measure the speed of the car because there is nothing in front of it the compare its motion to. Matter only appears behind the car so point B is always behind the car.
• 4. I know that this brings about the question, "you could just measure how fast the matter is being created behind the car, and that would give you its speed". Well, yes and no. Behind the care, where we exist, this is possible, but in front of the car you still don’t have a point B. And sense the car never passes anything it is not moving! Speed means nothing in front of our car. The light barrier can be surpassed because there is no matter, energy, or time. Einstein's theory is not violated because of this fact. So maybe the Big Bang could have happened. I am still undecided.
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