Before and Just After the Big Bang

Before and Just After the Big Bang

KRS Murthy

Current Understanding of Science of Big Bang & the Universe

We all know about the big bang, that it was a singularity; singular singularity may also be used to qualify this unique and one-time event. Current understanding is that there was nothing, yes absolutely nothing, before the big bang; not even space and time, combined called as space-time fabric. Owing to the limitations of Plank time, 10 to the power of minus 45 seconds, the time required for the light to travel the distance of Plank length, which is 10 to the power of minus 35 meters, whatever happened after the singular big bang, nothing is observable for the duration of the first Planck time, the physical time and space limitation imposed by Plank constants. 

Further, space-time fabric became available for observation after the first Planck space and time scale limit, at least in theory. As space-time fabric didn't exist before the big bang, everything was born after the big bang.

We have all heard of dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter in our universe is six times that of Baryonic matter, the regular visible/observable matter. Dark energy is 75% of all matter and energy combined. The approximate tally is 75% dark energy, 20 percent dark matter and 5% observable matter and energy combined. Both dark matter and dark energy are not observable, and thus are qualified with the adjective "dark".

Murthy's Postulations as Possibilities

My postulates are possibilities for what happened before and after the big bang. I postulate that before the big bang, space and time existed with only dark matter and dark energy existing in the space-time fabric. However, any hypothetical observer could have not observed the dark matter and dark energy. 

The big bang was actually the birth of what we call as Baryonic matter, electromagnetic wave energy, and also photons. I differentiate photon as particles of light, versus the electromagnetic light wave. The photons could not escape the superdense Baryonic matter just after the big bang. The mean free path of the photons was at Planck scale just after the big bang. Once this mean free path got relaxed with the Baryonic matter spreading away from each other, the photons escaped becoming light waves with the electromagnetic wave property. 

The dark matter with its immense gravity pull on the Baryonic matter made the expansion happen, which is called "inflation". The dark matter also helped to scaffold and create structures out of the Baryonic matter, which in due course formed the different celestial objects at stellar and galactic scale.

The dark energy pushed the space between the celestial objects by creating space in between the celestial objects. This pushing and spreading of the space between the celestial objects are still happening at an accelerated pace, resulting in a runaway towards and past the Hubble horizon. 

Before the humans came into being on the earth, able to perform cosmic activity observations, many celestial may have run away and escaped into the Hubble horizon. 

You may consider reading my blog about the runaway effect that I postulate to be a gravity well effect.