The Big Bang Theory is unprovable. Yea or nay?

Answer 1

It has been proved to the satisfaction of most all scientists. When the Big Bang theory was first proposed, few scientists believed in it. It was the crazy theory, the sensible theory was steady state.

Two things changed that.

First a scientist in the 1930s said the afterglow of the Big Bang should be observable, as microwave radiation, with a temperature of 3 degrees K, permeating the whole universe. In the 1950s someone found that radiation. That convinced most scientists that the Big Bang was correct. But some steady state guys came up with explanations for the microwaves. Not great explanations, but plausible.

Then another scientist pointed out the microwave radiation should have very tiny ripples in it, with a certain shape. These were the marks of minor irregularities in the Big Bang that would lead to the formation of stars and galaxies. We launched a satellite, looked for them (very hard, they're tiny) and found them, with the predicted size and shape. Those ripples convinced almost all scientists that the Big Bang theory was correct. Nobody has proposed another good explanation for the ripples.

We've since launched another satellite to look at the ripples even more closely. The results are consistent with the Big Bang theory.

Most scientists now consider the Big Bang theory as one of the better proven theories. Like 99+% likely to be true.

Note that nothing in the Big Bang theory denies the possibility that the bang itself was created by a higher power. It only covers what happened immediately after the bang.

Good book about this:

http://www.amazon.com/Afterglow-Creation-Fireball-Discovery-Ripples/dp/0935702407/sr=8-1/qid=1158195749/ref=sr_1_1/104-7410642-9107907?ie=UTF8&s=books

Answer 2

Is the Bible true? Was earth and the universe created? Did Jesus live? Totally unprovable in today's age! So is it unprovable? No because in the future there just may be the second coming!!!

The big bang theory is just that - a theory. But in today's modern age it is capable of increasing scientific support from discovery and will I am sure be proved in the not too distant future.

In about a year the Large Hadron Collider will come on stream. This is a 27 kilometre long circular particle accelerator at the CERN experimental facility near Geneva. It will smash protons into each other at unimaginable speeds trying to replicate in miniature the events of the Big Bang.

At the same time there are two large arrays being built to grab the available light from way back when. This will allow computations of the tracks of stars and galaxies in their motion away from their source. When that has been accomplished it is a simple matter of reversing those tracks to the origin of the big bang.

So yes - the big bang is provable it just has not been achieved yet!

Answer 3

total bull crap,

consider this, according to the big bang a ball of gasses exploded and created the universe.

This is possible in fact everytime a sun is made this is what happeneds

But that ball of gasses got there somehow, Now consider a black hole, which is essentially just a collecting of mass gathered at a single point with a gravitational field of more than the speed of light

Hence, it maybe possible that the big bang was a black hole with a ginormous gravity, containing all the mass in the universe

If this is true then either of 2 things could have happened

a. its imposible for an explosion since the gravitational pull would bring it back together

b The energy of the singularitys gravitational compression became so great that the escape velocity was attained.

- if a is true then the big bang is false

- if b is true then that means the big bang was occured multiple times, thus this would not explaing the creation of the univers but a loop that occurs many times within the universe

Answer 4

Most scientific theories are unproveable. (Exception: the theory of evolution IS proveable -- write me if you want details.) Absent proof, how do we know that it is right? We don't. But, if the theory gives sensible answers to questions, it becomes accepted: that means that people rely on it to get answers that they consider useful. The big bang theory has been accepted for some years now, but it is not proveable.

Answer 5

The Big Bang theory is just shy of the obvious and correct understanding. It is just too many words long. it needs to be merely "The Big theory".
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if you must think of it as a bang, this may help:
the bang is still going on, it never started, it will never end.
(quite a bang , eh)
in the scope of infinity all events occur this way, the second lasts the same amount of "infinite time" (so to speak) than the hour. a day, the same as a year; a year the same as a lifetime. all we have is the present moment which is not quantifiable by any practical means other than than the ticks of our clock. yet each "moment" is infinitesimally detailed; could be split and divided up into smaller and smaller pieces (just like our "space"). this reality stares us in the face everyday, yet we have our diurnal existence of night and day. this creates an illusion that our experience of time is in fact linear, when essentially it is a singularity constantly folding in on itself. the same moment ticks with every move of the second hand.

Answer 6

It is provable and as our technology is fine tuned we will find more and more reasons that support, or are against, the Big Bang. Such things will be light from some of the first galaxies, and background radiation that is left over from the bang and how it is distributed throughout the universe.

Answer 7

You can't "prove" scientific theories, only mathematical relationships. But the empirical evidence to date supports the Big Bang.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Yea and Nay

Answer 10

Big Bang - Theory? !!
We are all just a speck of universal dust!
That is why they say: "Dust to Dust, Ashes to Ashes"!