What triggered the big bang? Did all the pressure build up of all the gasses until the pressure was too high, and exploded into the space, and slowly forming planets, suns, galaxies?
2006-11-04 14:02:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It's a big mystery. I have read that initially, at the onset of the Big Bang, all the matter of the universe existed as a singularity that was infinitely dense and it, suddenly, expanded several times the speed of light. Once the expansion, or explosion, occurred the mass was no longer homogenous, but was clumped together, which can explain the formation of the planets, stars, etc. It's funny that all the big brains of the scientific community can tell you what happened .1, .01, .001 seconds (and so on) after the big bang, but none of them can tell you what occured the half second before.
2006-11-04 14:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by Darrick B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's get something straight.
There were no gasses at the beginning of the universe. None. There were no elements or particles of any kind.
There was energy. The big bang is an inflation of energy. It was not a traditional explosion.
We do not know what caused the big bang. Many speculate that a quantum fluctuation caused the big bang. Some speculate that something outside of the universe caused the big bang (strings).
2006-11-04 14:53:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bang Theory
Representation of the universe according to inflationary cosmology.
The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.
In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance.
The big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery.
Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.
2006-11-04 17:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by C.J. W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u r right. the pressure was too high due to overcrowding to gases and exploded in space which resulted in slow forming of planets, stars(not 'suns' because its a name for our star) and galaxies. hope u like the answer
2006-11-04 14:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by Dhirs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Hawking said that to know what caused the big bang is like seeing the mind of God.
2006-11-04 14:06:35 · answer #5 · answered by Texan Pete 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. The cause is a mystery. There was energy, perhaps, but no matter. Even quarks could not exist at the temperatures they predict (if the theory is correct).
2006-11-04 14:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob Ross drew too many happy little trees inside it and it 'sploded.
2006-11-05 02:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by corvis_9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, too much pressure and mass, like a black hole, but maybe it crashed into another dimension untill it filled it up. think what you want,
2006-11-04 14:07:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know...
its only a theory so you would have to come up with a theoretical answer,
2006-11-04 14:06:36 · answer #9 · answered by ryanisalifestyle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋