2006-06-11 20:02:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
First of all, try not to think of the Big Bang as an "explosion." An explosion happens inside something else and has a center. As far as is known by the best scientists around, the Big Bang didn't happen inside any 'thing' else, and it has no center. All this also means that you can't speak of a "large empty region" either because the concept of 'large' only makes sense when compared to something else. If you're still with me, then understand that only at the first instant of the Big Bang was there any "empty region" at all (called 'space'), and that began expanding. Today that expansion has reached outward some 13.7-billion light years.
2006-06-11 20:10:54 · answer #1 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Big Bang is not the same kind of 'explosion' as a fireworks display.
Particles did not get ejected from some spot in 3-D space. Instead, if general relativity is correct, you have to think of the explosion as a dilation of the separations between all particles. This is a very different kind of motion, but not one through space at all.
What this will mean is that every cubic centimeter of the existing space in our universe was the origin for the Big Bang. There was no isolated volume of space that somehow avoided being a part of this conflagration of matter and energy.
2006-06-12 06:51:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, not a bad question.
'inthebeginning' sort of singularity aka "big bang"
there initially was not a thing known as "time".
maybe our senses cannot conceive of existence being
utterly contained on an ever-expanding wavefront, since
our perceptions more or less root us into 3-dimensions
with 'time' added on.
If the bigbang was a higher-dimensional event (probly was) then our sensory data is not sufficient in terms
of accurate modeling of inflation-type existence.
we think in metaphors usually ... there is an ok explanation on wikipedia, with one little quote here:
"The original model of inflation,[1] proposed by Alan Guth, had the universe in a false vacuum. The universe was in an exactly de Sitter phase. In this model, regions of non-inflating universe .."
caveat: the Buddha said that your efforts might be spent better by focusing on self-control and right action.
good luck
2006-06-12 03:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that there was space and then the Big Bang created the objects in space, -it's the idea that nothing existed, even the concept of space distance, volume. or anything. -and that the Big Bang created every concept of emptiness, distance, and mass, matter, energy, etc.
2006-06-12 03:10:13 · answer #4 · answered by MK6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was created, the ratio of matter to empty space in the present universe is very small
2006-06-12 03:08:57 · answer #5 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure there isn't a large empty region?
2006-06-12 03:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe implosion? who can really know, just make your assumptions and live life to the fullest. this question has made some great minds turn into jelly!
2006-06-12 08:48:11 · answer #7 · answered by sorrells316 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they even know where the center is.
2006-06-12 03:17:41 · answer #8 · answered by Don S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there was...it's called SPACE (as in empty)
2006-06-12 03:25:07 · answer #9 · answered by jimbob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋