2006-07-09 02:56:16 · 14 answers · asked by confused 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think it's safe to assume that everything should move away from the big bang. This should produce an area that is void of mater. Why haven't we located a point in space where the Big Bang originated?
2006-07-14 05:52:51 · update #1
The Big Bang was not and explosion in the universe which would create a center point from which everything moved out. The Big Bang was an explosion of the universe (not in) which means that all parts of the universe move away from each other with no preferred center. This is a tough concept, but the universe has a geometry with no edge and no center. You might think of the surface of a sphere which also has no edge and no center. While the sphere itself has a center, its surface does not. There is no boundary to the sphere where you can fall off the edge of the sphere. The same is true of the universe, but with additional dimensions.
2006-07-09 03:08:04 · answer #1 · answered by JOHN E 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would be sort of true if the big bang where a simple explosion. It was not. First before what they call the inflation period the universe was forming with strings untangling forming wormhole like paths for the energy to flow into. Once the energy filled these wormholes the wormholes collapsed. The shape that the energy followed was not a simple outward motion but an elaborate Ten Dimensional maze where everything wrapped around everything else so to speak. Then with gravity splitting off of the 'Super-force' and since gravity actually started off being a repulsive force (and some say that it still is and it only causes other things to attract) Inflation expanded the universe to a much larger size while making the overall density a lot thinner and the matter cooler. The paths that where forged from the beginning still are in the same progress today with some exceptions due to matter crossing paths (Galaxies Colliding and such). Brian
2006-07-20 17:22:26 · answer #2 · answered by brian p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may not be a center of the universe. Rather, your center of the universe is where you are standing. The limit of your universe is your ability to see to the big bang in every direction. If you look far enough, you are looking back in time (because light has a finite speed) to the cosmic radiation of a big bang.
That being said, a big bang is an expansion in volume of matter that was at one time at a point of singularity. A point of singularity is essentially a mathematical consequence of reversing an expanding universe. Here matter is infinitely dense taking up an infinitely small volume. Another consequence is that a point of singularity has uniform density. When it expands, not all matter expands evenly. Regions with more matter become stars and planets and other condensed matter in the universe, regions with less matter become voids. The voids occur all over the place and not necessarily at the center of your universe.
2006-07-09 03:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by landonabird 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. Because the Big Bang (BB) wasn't as "simple" as what we teach it is (was) in schools...a sort of big, 3-dimensional, explosion. That's only a HUGE simplification we use to try and get the basic idea across. In fact, the BB involved many dimensions ( a tricky concept, right there) and energy levels almost beyond comprehension. The best answer to the question, "where did the BB occur?" is, everywhere...even right where you're sitting.
Hopefully, we'll know more about it after next summer. That's when the giant LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN in Switzerland will become (finally!!) operational. Let's keep out fingers crossed!
2006-07-09 04:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by stevenB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because as with any explosion matter is quickly pushed back in too the point of explosion. The pin ball theory, the matter being pushed away will have impacts on one another, some thing's being pushed and pulled back to the point of the energy release.
Early on this void may have been detectable, but only through computer models of the visible universe can we make some type of guess as to where it might have been.
2006-07-23 02:03:46 · answer #5 · answered by brp_13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are damn right buddy.Before Universe was born there used to be a voidness everywhere...And the universe was like a compressed(Zipped) ball of tremendous dense matter.LAter due to certain organic reactions(inorganic as well) the ball busted(Big Bang) and the universe came into existence.You must be thinking it a JOKE huh....The proof still exists today...Our universe is still expanding in the vast space and even our solar system is moving.
2006-07-09 03:12:28 · answer #6 · answered by Wolverine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
I did not read about that to be a fact...
All I know that there is a lot of dark matter aroudn 70% of the universe. The big bank also left behind it radation.
However I don't know why you think there should be a large void. From nothing cam up the universe with full of galaxies, stars etc...
Karl
http://www.freewebs.com/smithkarl/DaveBlogs.htm
2006-07-09 06:57:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Why would their be? The initial particle of the big bang is theorized to have been microscopic but with a density that is impossible to measure. That being said, the 'center' of the universe is theoretically that same barely voluminous size.
2006-07-09 03:03:14 · answer #8 · answered by Sarah Michelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was never a "big bang." It is illogical to think about it from the stand of the principle of cause and effect. What caused the big bang? What was there before it? See the links below.
2006-07-09 03:08:48 · answer #9 · answered by avyakt7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God put the Universe in motion with
the flick of a finger. Things probably were
bouncing around trying to get away from other "Stuff".
Who knows which way it went? Probably no central point.
2006-07-18 09:29:53 · answer #10 · answered by Answers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋