(November 19, 2014 at 8:23 pm)dyresand Wrote:(November 19, 2014 at 8:17 pm)Chuck Wrote: It's would be right if you just redefine "nothing", "helium" "oxygen" and maybe "nutshell".
ill rephrase it.
there was a big bang well a expansion of time and space that created the first element helium, but because it was such a sudden event the universe is extremely hot and the newly formed helium could not create bonds. Given millions of years later when it was cool enough helium formed bonds with one another to get our elements that would soon create stars.
Let me try
At the big band, the universe was very very very ... very hot and dense. The exact state of particles and physics involved is unknown. The universe quickly expanded and cooling off in the process. Hydrogen, Hellium and Lithium were the first elements to come out of the big bang about 700,000 years later.
No one knows what happened "before" the big bang. The question itself is non-sensical since time began at the big bang. To ask such a question, you have to pre-suppose an exterior universe that our universe is in.