How was the "big bang" triggered?

[Crash]

I cant see the mathmatical priciples actually meaning anything before the big bang, twould be just like thinking out side the universe......rules all of their own but would the rules obey rules...........or be chaos(which IS a form of order)

[Jenab]

What we call time came into existence with the rest of the universe. It's a dimension, a measure of extent or separation, much the same as a spatial dimension.

 

Perhaps the largest share of the confusion in this discussion comes from the assumption that the time dimension we recognize is the only possible one of its sort and that all events are related to this time dimension in a serial fashion.

 

Let's move away from that. We will find that the difficulties disappear.

 

Our universe came into existence as a statistical fluke permitted by the uncertainty principle. It's overall energy content is zero, but the positive and negative energy portions are separate. Zero in sum (when dE*dt > h-bar) is all the conservation of energy requires, and that does not imply a zero deviation.

 

If we're careful, we can see that the statistical energy fluctuations that gave our universe existence is ubiquitous: it goes on everywhere and all the time. It gives us the Lamb shift, the Casimir effect, and Hawking radiation.

 

Not all of these fluctuations are universes. Universes are complicated structures, and most uncaused quantum events must involve simpler ones. But all universes, including ours, originate as quantum fluctuations of zero energy.

 

What I've said here isn't a scientific statement because it can't be tested. In principle, testing is impossible. A universe appears as a self-contained causal unity with a two-way bar to information ever entering from the outside or escaping from the inside. But it looks like a reasonable guess, which is better than the deity-guess because it does not require an additional entity (a god) whose existence is not subject to testing.

 

(Event horizons, such as those of black holes, might permit matter to exit: however, they do not permit information to exit.)

 

The time dimension of our universe has no relevance to anything that is not also a part of it.

 

Anyway, it can be argued that time and space are perceptual only; i.e., they are the way our senses interpret the texture of potential differences created by the fields of force from non-singular sources.

 

Jerry Abbott