RE: Big bang theory, explain where the matter in the fist sized ball came from?

Question

My mind cannot concieve billions of galaxies and all that material
in a fist sized ball. Impossible, explain it. Thank you.

Answer 1

Some very misguided people have answered this question before I got to it. (especially the creationist).

You see, matter can be converted into energy and energy can be converted into matter. This is how a nuclear power plant creates energy. It is using nuclear fission to convert matter into energy. This is Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2. The early universe was pure energy, with no matter. In the big bang, space expanded at a violent rate, and from the energy came matter, using Einstein's equation, which happens very easily at the spectacularly hot temperatures that existed then. All of the matter in the universe came from that initial energy.

Answer 2

fist sized ball, seems very small right ??

Just look at this, if you have a iron ball infront of you, it seems like a "solid" object. But what is that iron ball made up of millions of iron atoms. What is an atom made up of 'electrons' orbiting 'nucleus', did you know that the atom is almost entirely space and contains very little matter, to be precise if you remove the all the space between electron orbit and the nucleus the density will increase by 10^15 !!

Now when you come to the nucleus it is made of protons and neutrons which inturn is made up of quarks. Recent studies have shown that even these 'quarks' occupy very little space and the rest is space. So as we understand more about 'matter' we figure out that what ever is 'visibly' matter to us is in reality "mostly space" and "very little matter".

So basically if you remove all the space between 'electron and nucleus' the sun will shrink to the size of a pingpong ball. Now if you remove the space between the quarks within protons this pingpong ball will vanish......so the sun will vanish into invisible spec when you remove space and just have matter with you.

Now with this understanding if you compress the complete universe a 'fist sized ball' is not really impossible, but very much possible.

Have fun !!

Answer 3

well one HUGE proof of the big bang is that the CMB Cosmic microwave background radiation exists. This is a electromagnetic radiation remnant of the big bang and resonates all around space.

Also, if general relativity is correct, then this theory calls for the universe to start at a singularity and then explode.

Where it came from and how it was set to motion will never be known and the only explanation for this is a supernatural power. I think this is the point where science has discovered God.. in a way. The questions will replicate: if the universe came from a creator, then who created the creator, and So ON!

Answer 4

the large Bang is the dominant (and extraordinarily supported) theory of the beginning of the universe. In essence, this theory states that the universe began from an initial element or singularity which has prolonged over billions of years to form the universe as we now recognize it. in accordance to Einstein's wide-spread theory of relativity, the large Bang represents the starting up, the grand experience at which not in basic terms count number yet area-time itself develop into born. Classical theories provide no clues about existence before that second. this is the point at which area and time come into existence. in spite of the undeniable fact that, it really is likewise a "singular" element, at which our theories destroy down. it really is achieveable that some destiny reconciliation of wide-spread relativity with quantum mechanics might want to really help us comprehend the beginning of the large Bang, in basic terms because it really is achieveable that we'd come to trust that the universe had an exciting history even before what we now call the Bang. both possibilities are being actively pursued by employing cosmologists.

Answer 5

The energy that resulted in the Horrendous Kablooies must've been immense to have created all the galaxies..... Guess what, the back ground radiation of the energy released has been observed and measured.

And why do people always point to a supernatural explanation for the unknown? To me, that's cave man logic. Not knowing what caused the big bang doesn't point automatically to an intelligent design...it just doesn't make sense.

Answer 6

There was no 'matter in the first sized ball'.


There was a mass of energy contained within a planck length (1.6x10^-36 meters).

There is nothing inconceivable about compacting energy into such a small area.

Remember, even though energy is matter, matter is a different form of energy. Billions of galaxies existed at this time, and all of the life in the universe...

but it was all in a different form than we see now.

Answer 7

I dont believe in the big bang-theory, science change accordint to how the next question ,or color or money is coming from goverment ,lookee here ,now they are demoting Pluto, whats next? The truth be told all was created by such an Intelligence that we are like ants to understand ,and so in order to come up with answers to something we dont understand ,we have the big-bang theory!Monkeys are still monkeys are they not? so how did they evolutionise? I dont see it. We made of the same stuff as stars ,are similar to all life ,with the difference ,that we have in us the Essence of the Creator!It is this Essence that makes us WHO we are ,not the body!

Answer 8

Explaination ?, gravity gone mad, If all the matter of the universe came together, the intense mass/gravity would crush it, the same way a star like our sun will shrink into a white dwarf, and be about the size of earth, but 1 teaspoon of this stuff will like 15 millon tons or something like that. thats why

Answer 9

A singularity came before that, but we don't know what set it all in motion (it is, in a way impossible to know).

The early universe was very compressed and heated and contained all the elements to make the universe today, but they needed to coagulate into stars and galexies first, localized lumps, as space expanded so that they could create the materials currently present in our universe through (primarily) nuclear fusion.

wiki's site is perhaps a little less painful to read (and shorter) than a Hawking book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang

Answer 10

Without the big bang theory, then God must have made a snow ball and threw it out into space and things begin to happen. But, I don't know where God lives and hangs out, must not be looking out for earth for sure.