2006-07-26 19:51:36 · 13 answers · asked by Golden Suprime Afinix 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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.
The amount of evidence in support of the Big Bang theory is simply overwhelming. So much so that the theory simply cannot now be overturned.
Here are a few examples of supporting evidence, by which I mean predictions by the Big Bang theory that have been quantitatively verified.
- The Universe as a whole is expanding.
- The universe is filled with a sea of radiation at a temperature of just over 2.7 degrees Kelvin, the remnant of the superhot radiation from the fireball that has cooled down as the universe expanded.
- The observed abundance of hydrogen, helium and some other light elements produced just after the Big Bang confirms to prediction.
- The large-scale structures observed in the universe today, are a consequence of small fluctuations shortly after the Big Bang
- Einstein's Theory of Relativity, a theory for which there exist overwhelming evidence even from everyday phenomena, predicts an expanding Universe.
2006-07-26 21:06:30 · answer #1 · answered by cordefr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The origin of the universe is all theoretical, but the most common theory is the Big Bang theory. It says that the entire universe originated off of one single point- about the size of the tip of a pin. In this point, everything that ever was to be par tof the universe was compressed. Then this point experienced the "big bang", where it rapidly expanded. Over time, some of the hot gasses in the morass started forming stars. Today we know for a fact that the universe is expanding- and many think that's because of the initial big bang.
2006-07-26 19:57:35 · answer #2 · answered by Michael G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no no no ppl GOD created Earth.. I have pondered this thought time and time again and I have come to the conclusion that the universe has always been here and always will be however life and planets and everything else will not be but it is impossible for our brains to comprehend this thought becasue everything we know since we were born has had a beginning and an end whether or not it began or ended in our life time everything we know has. think about it.. why does it need a beginning??? people assume there is because we know nothing else like this and never will because we will die before an end comes if there were to be one. the big bang theory is a good one but here is a question.. where was this compacted universe the size of a pin tip to begin with?? and it isn't expanding.. there is just no end. once again that is another thing that is just impossible for our brains to comprehend because everything we have ever known has had boundries of some sort.
2006-07-26 20:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by The Answerer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many theories on the originality of the universe, most which i cant B bothered saying.
1. God created it in 6 days
2. the big bang theory
3. an egg cracked and formed it all (dont ask)
L8R
Guy S
2006-07-26 19:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Leaving aside the religious explanations? We don't know. Cosmological theories that best fit the observations we can make with current equipment, when extrapolated backwards in time as far as they can be, show all matter, energy and space highly compressed and rapidly expanding. The theories don't actually say everything emanated from a point and they say nothing at all about where that presumed point came from." - Moe
That pretty much says it all. I'd just add emphasis to Moe's initial statements. "Leaving aside the religious explanations? We don't know. " Well said, and obviously well thought out!
2006-07-26 21:01:12 · answer #5 · answered by Dahs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leaving aside the religious explanations? We don't know. Cosmological theories that best fit the observations we can make with current equipment, when extrapolated backwards in time as far as they can be, show all matter, energy and space highly compressed and rapidly expanding. The theories don't actually say everything emanated from a point and they say nothing at all about where that presumed point came from.
2006-07-26 20:23:57 · answer #6 · answered by moe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Hawking says it's always been here.
This particular universe (one song) originated about 13.7 billion years ago with the 'big bang'
Before that is anyone's guess.
2006-07-26 22:56:21 · answer #7 · answered by yadayada 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First find out when it will end then you will have your answer.
In other words we were not created to understand this. Much like a muscle is not like a mind it has a function and it does it. A brain cannot pump blood.
2006-07-26 20:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by txrock 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has always been there. Now the question was "always" means. Maybe there was no time before the big bang, so "since the big bang" is the same as "always".
2006-07-26 19:58:47 · answer #9 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can find the answer to this question and much more if you join a Masonic Lodge.
2006-07-26 21:32:56 · answer #10 · answered by skilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋