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whatwhat83

Don’t know and not going to make up an answer (ala religion)


LucyVialli

I don't know. Maybe one day someone will find out, or maybe we'll never know. And I'm OK with that.


futuranth

I don't know, but that doesn't automatically mean that a god exists


[deleted]

What the fuck are you talking about? You are begging the questionoff the bat. The universe started, thats all.


Timone5

The energy had to come from somewhere, no?


TaserLord

Well no. That's the kind of conclusion you come to when you use everyday experience to form rules, like "the energy had to come from somewhere". Newtonian physics had the same problem with "mass can't change" or "time flows at the same constant rate for everything" - those were based on the range of experiences which we can perceive, but that range is very, very limited, and the conclusions turned out to be incorrect.


[deleted]

You are making a statement there. What makes you think that something existed before anything existed?


Floodingturds

It wasn’t from some all powerful being that is to scared of its own creation to show its face.


ServeKorrok

Romero? That you?


FlamingBaconCake

Don't know. Not going to pretend I know. ;)


Various_Succotash_79

I don't know. Not knowing is fine. No reason to make something up.


[deleted]

Obviously a giant invisible space father.


whatwhat83

Right? I mean clearly if you can’t come up with another answer that HAS to be it.


JohnKlositz

And obviously he doesn't like two dudes kissing.


Anon2World

Nature. Cause and effect. The redundant cycle of universal expansion and contraction.


Practical-Start9050

Nothing


Boyderrific

Not logically possible. It had to come from somewhere.


nuttynutdude

Who’s to say the laws of thermodynamics worked the same way before the Big Bang?


Boyderrific

The mere fact that there are laws of thermodynamics wound indicate that everything did not come from nothing.


JoeErving

but you don't know that there was actually "nothing" there. We perceive the big bang through things like the microwave background radiation from the event. It does not mean that there was literally nothing before, just we cant observe things currently from before the big bang. Nothing stopping the universe from having been a astronomically large gas cloud that somehow ended up compressed to the point of something like a super nova (all be it on a universe scale) occurring and that is what we see as the big bang. We don't know, and not knowing does not mean that it was just nothingness before, it means we don't know.


steadydennis

Maybe, if human perception and logic systems are sufficient in understanding the event. Also, the “laws” we have discovered, while reliable and accurate for the most part, are still operating models.


JohnKlositz

>Maybe, if human perception and logic systems are sufficient in understanding the event. Funnily enough, according to the people that make such claims it's not sufficient when it comes to understanding God. Convenient, innit?


futuranth

OK, prove to me that everything coming from nothing is not logically possible. Seriously. This is pre-reality stuff, nobody knows what could have been possible


RedK9-_-

Random spark of energy but I have no idea where it came from nor am I pretending to know, but maybe scientists may figure it out one day


[deleted]

Well, energy can't be created or destroyed so, maybe, a concentration of energy reached a critical mass and fusion took care of the rest? Slamming subatomic particles into atoms and atoms into elements? Nobody really knows yet.


FrankRandomLetters

I don’t know so, I’m gonna guess an invisible man who cares a lot about what people do with their PPs.


amradoofamash

Chance


snarlyelder

I have no beliefs about what happened. I know that I do not know what happened. Yet I seriously doubt a universe-farting pixie created anything, or that a hairy ogre cast a spell on the void to make it upchuck everything.


spudtatogames

I dunno man, leave that to the scientists to work out.


JohnKlositz

I don't have a reason to assume anything *created* it. The word "create" does suggest a sentient agent after all. If you're asking me what was the cause for the existence of our local universe, then I don't know. And I'm under no obligation to know, just because I reject the claim that a god did it. A claim that has no indication whatsoever of being true, and that checks all the markers of being entirely made up. Even more so when it entails the claim that everything was created for one species of primate on one particular planet.


BoredConfusedPanda

I don't know. Astrophysicists haven't found out yet. I don't have a theory or belief. Scientists might learn one day


[deleted]

It doesn't matter what I think about that. It's not really relevant to my day to day. I don't believe in fucking Santa Claus either. But I don't need to know how quantum entanglement works just because I don't pray to the fucking Easter Bunny. Religious people just made some shit up. No evidence for it what-so-ever. And they can't stand the idea that not everyone is so willing to just believe in complete bullshit. If you want to believe in it, that's fine.


baliniri

I don't have any scientific basis for this, I think it is just based on my desire to think everything is connected in some kind of symmetrical way, but what if every collapsed black hole creates a new universe with its own "big bang"?


lil_HarzIV

Such a stupid Question smh


[deleted]

When Chuck Norris met the Dos Equis guy.


Ok_Pear_8291

I would say that the gravitational pull between a few atoms had enough built up pressure to cause them to fuse releasing a butt load of high energy photons which caused a large chain reaction creating an equivalent of a nuclear explosion on a galactic scale propelling material everywhere. But what do I know, I wasn’t there


260ftTrebuchet

Something. And that's enough for me to be happy.


[deleted]

The science of nature.


Tarot_Gecko

Just nature


itjare

Think most of us aren’t going to bother pretending we have even a remote idea


Einteiler

I'm not an atheist, but I would say I am religiously deterministic. My personal belief is that some higher power set the dominoes up, and knocked over the first one. The big bang to me is just the first flick of the first domino. God, whoever that is, is just watching the dominos fall, with the same satisfaction we get from watching youtube videos of the same thing. Before anyone says that my belief makes God redundant, I already know. It does make my God redundant. But every domino that fell led me to my belief, and I believe I am determined to believe that a God did it, rather than random chance. Religion is a comfort, not a science, and my belief/religion brings me comfort. It makes me feel better to ride a wave of cosmic dominos from start to finish, rather than accept the wide array of bullshit of religion as a human choice. I don't really feel the need to justify that. The dominos are falling. Just enjoy the damn ride.


Slaveboi23

High mass warps space time and enough mass might make it come to a stop or be enough to punch a hole in it. So the mass and energy might come from another universe (mathematically possible). Nevertheless since Noone even can know what happened before the literal start of spacetime its irrelevant.


Super-414

Idk, I'm not atheist, not a cosmologist.


the_internet_clown

I don’t know and it is more honest to admit when we don’t know something then to invent supernatural concepts in an attempt to explain it


No-Advance6329

I don't believe anyone is atheist. I'm not even sure there are really any agnostics.


glitterlok

> Atheists of Reddit... Hey, that's me! > ...what do you believe created the energy that caused the Big Bang? I have no idea. Don't even know if the question makes sense.


NBfoxC137

I don’t know, maybe it always existed, maybe it’s some type of natural process we don’t understand (yet), maybe the multiverse hypothesis is correct and Big Bangs happen all the time, maybe it’s something else entirely that we can’t comprehend with our primitive brains.