• Question: Where did the energy come from to create the Big Bang?

    Asked by Gracie#Future-Scientist to Aileen, Christopher, Stephanie on 16 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Aileen Baird

      Aileen Baird answered on 16 Mar 2018:

      I don’t think I can answer this one properly even if I do some research- my physics is very rusty, so hopefully one of the other scientists will be able to answer this one for you!

    • Photo: Christopher Nankervis

      Christopher Nankervis answered on 16 Mar 2018:

      That is a hard question to answer. Energy can not be created or destroyed, so it must have been here in a different form. Some people think that there are types of energy that we can not easily observe, like dark energy. There is an equal and opposite to everything; anti-matter, dark energy that may have been around before the Big Bang in much larger amounts.

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      Stephanie Mann answered on 16 Mar 2018:

      This is exactly the questions that cosmologists are trying to answer! My knowledge might be a bit out of date but I think scientists have a good idea of what happened 0.00000(plus 40 more zeros)01 seconds AFTER the big bang…. and a lot about what happened after that…. But what happened BEFORE the big bang? Nobody knows for sure! Some people think that maybe there was a collapsing universe that somehow collapsed right into the tiny singularity that caused the big bang, but we can’t be sure with the technology we have right now.

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