You can go to loads of web sites on this subject, however I would trust NASA to give you the best picture.
The Big Bang Model is a broadly accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. It postulates that 12 to 14 billion years ago, the portion of the universe we can see today was only a few millimeters across. It has since expanded from this hot dense state into the vast and much cooler cosmos we currently inhabit. We can see remnants of this hot dense matter as the now very cold cosmic microwave background radiation which still pervades the universe and is visible to microwave detectors as a uniform glow across the entire sky.
Loads more info if you follow the link.
2006-09-17 10:12:15
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Others have answered similar questions more explicitly than I can, but what I do know is that an incredible, infinite Power (I call God) was responsible for it and has been in control of its effects every since. The great paradox of life is that the impossible became possible. As a child (I was a Believer at a very young age) I would lie in bed trying to work it out , and just as I was about to be given the answer I fell asleep !!
2006-09-16 07:14:52
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answer #2
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answered by Malcolm 3
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I found both these on askforkids.com:
How did the universe really begin? Most astronomers would say that the debate is now over: The universe started with a giant explosion, called the Big Bang. The big-bang theory got its start with the observations by Edwin Hubble that showed the universe to be expanding. If you imagine the history of the universe as a long-running movie, what happens when you show the movie in reverse? All the galaxies would move closer and closer together, until eventually they all get crushed together into one massive yet tiny sphere. It was just this sort of thinking that led to the concept of the Big Bang.
The Big Bang marks the instant at which the universe began, when space and time came into existence and all the matter in the cosmos started to expand. Amazingly, theorists have deduced the history of the universe dating back to just 10-43 second (10 million trillion trillion trillionths of a second) after the Big Bang. Before this time all four fundamental forces—gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces—were unified, but physicists have yet to develop a workable theory that can describe these conditions.
During the first second or so of the universe, protons, neutrons, and electrons—the building blocks of atoms—formed when photons collided and converted their energy into mass, and the four forces split into their separate identities. The temperature of the universe also cooled during this time, from about 1032 (100 million trillion trillion) degrees to 10 billion degrees. Approximately three minutes after the Big Bang, when the temperature fell to a cool one billion degrees, protons and neutrons combined to form the nuclei of a few heavier elements, most notably helium.
The next major step didn’t take place until roughly 300,000 years after the Big Bang, when the universe had cooled to a not-quite comfortable 3000 degrees. At this temperature, electrons could combine with atomic nuclei to form neutral atoms. With no free electrons left to scatter photons of light, the universe became transparent to radiation. (It is this light that we see today as the cosmic background radiation.) Stars and galaxies began to form about one billion years following the Big Bang, and since then the universe has simply continued to grow larger and cooler, creating conditions conducive to life.
Three excellent reasons exist for believing in the big-bang theory. First, and most obvious, the universe is expanding. Second, the theory predicts that 25 percent of the total mass of the universe should be the helium that formed during the first few minutes, an amount that agrees with observations. Finally, and most convincing, is the presence of the cosmic background radiation. The big-bang theory predicted this remnant radiation, which now glows at a temperature just 3 degrees above absolute zero, well before radio astronomers chanced upon it.
another explanation:
The explosive beginning of our universe, the Big Bang marks the earliest time we can probe with current physical theory. Theory has to guide our understanding of the first fraction of a second, since we can’t recreate the extremely high temperatures that existed during the earliest history of the universe in any earthly laboratory. What theory tells us is that from an initial state in which matter and radiation are both in an extremely hot and dense form, the universe expands and the matter cools. At that time, it is believed that all four of the fundamental forces of nature—gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces—were unified.
The evolution of the earliest universe is not well understood because it is not clear exactly what laws were at work. However, it is known that by the end of the first second of time, the building blocks of matter had formed. By the end of the first three minutes, helium and other light nuclei (like deuterium) had formed but for a long time, temperatures remained too high for the formation of most atoms. At around one million years following the Big Bang, nuclei and electrons were at low enough temperatures to coalesce to form atoms. But the universe didn’t start to look like it does today until small perturbations in the matter distribution were able to condense to form the stars and galaxies we know today.
2006-09-16 07:15:42
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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big bang theory mean the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe..it says the whole universe was one big piece of atom which was solid and that atom got unstable and it brusted with a big bang and thats how the universe was created...
2006-09-16 07:11:02
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answer #4
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answered by cool k 2
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The continents of the world were formed after they were divided through some large energy force which caused different land masses to break apart from one central point. Thus we have the continents of the world.
2006-09-16 07:07:52
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answer #5
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answered by kiss 4
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These two links should give you all the information you need. Good luck and hope you get a gold star and a house point. :)
2006-09-16 07:07:40
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answer #6
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answered by mancunian_nick 4
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It's what happens when a sexy lady comes round my house.
2006-09-16 07:21:52
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answered by Anonymous
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sure but we have to get to know each other first
2006-09-16 07:07:58
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answered by GOOCH 4
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whats this , some local orgy , wheres it at , haha
2006-09-16 07:06:27
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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from a big black hole
2006-09-17 06:48:54
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answered by Anonymous
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