How big was the big bang? bigger than blowing up a crisp packet and bursting it?

Answer 1

Even bigger than your bum - hard to believe though that is.

And it wasn't a "bang" as it goes, it was more of a whoosh.

(Can you see how upset with you I am? *sob*)

Answer 2

If it happened, then at that point in time (some allege that was the point in which time started) there were no ears anywhere in the universe (which was beginning to emerge), or beyond it to witness the noise.
If nothing witnessed the noise, if nothing reacted to the noise, then the Crisp packet you blow up and burst will sound to ears much much much louder than any ears could have heard the so called Big Bang.

Answer 3

In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe emerged from a tremendously dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago. The theory is based on the observations indicating the expansion of space (in accord with the Robertson-Walker model of general relativity) as indicated by the Hubble redshift of distant galaxies taken together with the cosmological principle.

Extrapolated into the past, these observations show that the universe has expanded from a state in which all the matter and energy in the universe was at an immense temperature and density. Physicists do not widely agree on what happened before this, although general relativity predicts a gravitational singularity (for reporting on some of the more notable speculation on this issue, see cosmogony).

The term Big Bang is used both in a narrow sense to refer to a point in time when the observed expansion of the universe (Hubble's law) began — calculated to be 13.7 billion (1.37 × 1010) years ago (±2%) — and in a more general sense to refer to the prevailing cosmological paradigm explaining the origin and expansion of the universe, as well as the composition of primordial matter through nucleosynthesis as predicted by the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory.[1]

From this model, George Gamow in 1948 was able to predict, at least qualitatively, the existence of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).[2] The CMB was discovered in 1964[3] and further corroborated the Big Bang theory, giving it an additional advantage over its chief rival, the steady state theory.

Answer 4

Bigger that blowing up a crisp packet, even bigger that all of the cheers, burps and farts put together at a football match in Scotland! Now, that is BIG!

Answer 5

As to be expected, a simplistic and unrealistic answer to complicated questions. There are no god-beings and never have been. Also, there never will be. Atheism is the only thing that can rescue humankind from the ignorance, bigotry, hatred and other horrors of religion. JOIN US! Oh, and the answer to your question is: We don't know yet so a definite conclusion cannot be drawn. But it sure as hell isn't some god fantasy that did it.

Answer 6

Yes it was huge. If you packed all the matter ever created into the tiniest space possible and then let it expand that is how big the big bang was.

Answer 7

It was bigger than mr blobby binging on bumper packs and wearing a michellin outfit then sitting on a pin.

If this is too scientific and technical- sorry about that.

Answer 8

Given that sound cannot travel in a vacuum, the big bang (if it happened) would have been silent.

Answer 9

Well, maybe not as big as the big bang from the 'grab a bag' size.

Answer 10

Just a bit bigger than that, say 10 million times bigger...:D