The Big Bang and Before

I want to speculate on the conditions at the moment of creation. Physicists have been doing this for most of a century. According to the most common theory that has been made public, these scientist speculate (They cannot measure and observe the first moment, so all they can do is extrpolate, intrapolate and speculate based on current conditions.) that all that is was merely a potential and then in a single, dimentionless point, everyting suddenly became. But what was there before the becoming? That is a question that cannot be answered by science. Before the moment of becoming, the extrapolation, intrapolation and speculation based on current conditions breaks down. So metaphysics has to take over. The philosophy of metaphysics is tasked with answering the same questions as science, yet metaphysics is not constrained by the empirical method.

How do you use philosophy to answer the question of the conditions before the beginning of everything we know? Logic and rhetoric play the primary role in philosophy. Assumptions from which the metaphysicist begins his or her mental exploration are usually what dictate the outcome. In the exercise tonight, I start with the assumptions that, first there is a creator, second principles that pervade creation were importaint in creation, and third mystical experiences can give insight into what came before creation.

In our universe, objects are both matter and energy at the same time. The subatomic building blocks of atoms act as both particles and standing waves. That surprised the physicists who first explored these particles. They also discovered that when these particles were not being observed, there was no way to predict their state. But when the scientists measured the particles, they acted exactly the way the experiment expected, even if it directly contradicted results of other validated experiments. This behavior can give a clue to the mechanism of creation. But the conditions before can only be worked out from the principles displayed. Nothing existed before the moment of the big bang. But the potential fot everything was everywhere, although there was no there there. The potential for everything existed undefined. Then the Creator expected existance, measured what would be, and it was. So is there this potential in each point of existance? I believe it to be so. The existance of what is has its being in the measurment of the Creator. Saint Paul said, “In Him we live and move and exist.”

Can our expectation make this potential become something out of nothing as the Creator did? Yes and no. Yes, we have consciousness and particles respond to our expectations. No, we can’t hope to compete against the expectation of the Creator to uncreate His work. But if we work in concert with Him, our expectation will bear fruit.

So before the Big Bang, there was nothing, no space, no time, no matter or energy. But there was the infinite potential of all things in every point.