is the beginning just a black hole that burst out?
2006-06-28 10:43:10 · 8 answers · asked by bulletprooftol@sbcglobal.net 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
The scientific theory is that the Universe started as a fluctuation of the vacuum. Such vacuum fluctuations make appear a small amount of energy, for a small time. This phenomenon is responsible for the existence of forces, that hold the Universe and matter together.
Normally the bigger the energy fluctuation, the smaller the time it is in existence.
Not so the Big Bang. That was a HUGE fluctuation. So big that a lot of energy came to appearance in the form of mass, elementary particles. These particles started expanding, before the vacuum could reclaim the energy.
And it is still expanding today. 14 billion years later.
Now for some speculation. Can Big Bangs happen more than once? Or equivalently, is our Universe the only one? Maybe not. The Big Bang was one big fluctuation, maybe others, smaller or bigger, take place all the time.
But most of these fluctuations will produce Universes in which conditions are just not suitable for life.
The Universe we observe is by necessity one in which the conditions are just right for us to have evolved into Homo Sapiens capable of asking philosophical questions.
2006-06-29 04:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by cordefr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Since the Bing Bang, the universe has been expanding (thus overcoming the gravity of other celestial bodies).
Read up on Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell and A Brief History of Time if this sort of thing interests you...
2006-06-28 17:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by festavan32 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definately, and it will happen again and again and again. It just takes a few hundred trillion years for the cycle to happen. Time is a funny thing, you can bend it and stretch it just like a rubber band but we haven't figured out how to break it just yet. It is the great equallizer and in the end absolutely nothing will matter except a sphere about the size of your thumbnail that happens to contain all the mass and energy in existance... at least in this existance anyway.
2006-06-28 17:51:34 · answer #3 · answered by scotter98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, just once. The other BANG you heard was just the echo.
2006-06-28 18:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by Kathy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No enough evidence that it even happened once.
2006-06-28 17:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by Nader 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it could since the universe is infinite.... but how would you be able to prove it?
2006-06-28 17:48:44 · answer #6 · answered by BeC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would it happen more than once?
2006-06-28 17:46:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess it could happen more than once but no one will ever know!
2006-06-28 17:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by pat t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋