The Big Bang occured almost 13.7 billion years ago. It happen somewhere in this vast universe of ours. From then on matters, galaxies, stars, planets, earth and human are created. The universe as today are still expanding rapidly. How big is the universe as at now and how far is planet earth in relation to the location of the Big Bang, if there is a known location assuming ?
2007-02-01 03:52:40 · 8 answers · asked by chan_mun_keng 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is no center point in our universe. The universe is what's called 'isotropic,' meaning that it's the same in all directions. The old analogy of a baking lump of dough in an oven is crude but valid -- if raisins are sprinkled onto the dough they all move away from each other as the dough expands (..in this analogy you've got to ignore everything about the dough except its surface..) Imagine you're riding on one of the raisins and look all around you. You see all the raisins in every direction moving away from yours, and that seems to indicate that you're at the central point on the dough. But if I was riding another raisin I'd see exactly the same thing. Careful and extremely precise observations on the nature of our universe show it to be similar to the rising dough.
Also remember that before the Big Bang event there was no "where," at least not in our universe since until the Big Bang it didn't exist. At the instant of the Big Bang spacetime (.."where"..) was first created, so it can be said that the Big Bang happened every "where" at once!
2007-02-01 04:15:23 · answer #1 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows for sure how big the universe is. While a large part of the universe has been observed, scientists have not, and will probably never, find the "edge of the universe". Most scientists mean "observable universe," when they refer to "The Universe."
It is also not possible to pinpoint a specific "location" of The Big Bang. Because, despite the fact that this doesn't seem to make any sense, there is no center of the universe.
Of course, if we are referring to the "observable universe," then you, wherever you happen to be, are at the center of the universe.
To confuse matters further, we aren't even 100% certain that a Big Bang occurred at all. There are other theories about the origins of the universe. The Big Bang Theory is simply the most widely accepted by the clever people that get paid to ponder these things.
2007-02-01 04:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big band occurred everywhere! Back then, however, "everywhere" was very very small -- smaller than inside of an atom is today.
The stuff that was going to become the Earth was squeezed inside that tiny space, along with everything else in the universe. And when I say "everything else", I mean all of space, as well as light and matter. There was no "outside" for the big bang.
So it's fair to say the Earth is right at the middle of the universe, where the big band happened. That's because everything is at the middle of the universe -- its all middle, all the way out to 13 or 14 billion light years away. No matter where you go, the whole universe is around you.
2007-02-01 04:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The easy analogy. Where is the center of the surface of the Earth? There isn't one. The Big Bang is like that, only in 3 dimensions instead of two,
2007-02-01 04:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got self belief the theory pertains to time and area. If this factor is the beginning place of all area and time, it won't be able to exist because of the fact area is countless and time has long provided that exceeded. particularly it in basic terms existed for the instantaneous that the enormous Bang exceeded off. actual we are able to % out a time-honored region that it would be placed at, yet no longer an exact factor. The technology of that is particularly nonetheless at a particularly new degree.
2016-11-02 01:27:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bang occured everywhere at once. It sound strange but no matter where you are you are alway in the center of the universe. This is a phenomina of gravity space and time that I don't understand.
I think the correct answer to your question is "Wha? huh? um iduno"
2007-02-01 04:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big bang is the expansion from a very small point. The "Big Bang" is now our entire universe.
2007-02-01 03:57:46 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Big Bang", I'm sorry to tell you , is a theory that NEVER occurred. SHOW ME PROOF!! If there was "Nothing" beforehand, then what did this "Big Bang" derive from?? A little green alien sitting nowhere who had gas?? About the only "Big Bang" that HAS happened is that wild orgy down the street last night.That I DO have proof of!!!!!LMAO-LOLOLOLOLOLOL
2007-02-01 04:10:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋