As in where did the original explosion occur?
2007-02-10 22:02:21 · 11 answers · asked by tunachunks199 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
OK - if you've seen the simulations of the big bang you see an expanding sphere that zooms out to the universe we can observe today - at the centre of that sphere is the Earth - us. So if you wound everything back to the big bang from where we are everything would zoom back to us. Every point in the universe would be the same; wherever you think that you are you are at the centre. And if you think about it it has to be that way, because ultimately if there was a single point from which it all started, we and everything else were at that point at the beginning, so it would all emanate from that point, get it? - confused? That higher dimensions for you - we are not wired up to see it. Does my head in all the time.
2007-02-11 10:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by Moebious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the stuff of the Universe can be traced through radio astronomy emissions to a source. This is where the nuclear activity that was the big bang is still to be "seen" because from this distance away it is as if this process is happening NOW.
Remember that light, and probably all other kinds of radiation travel bloody fast.
More interesting to me is the actual mapping of the galaxies in our vicinity to see if they make up some sort of plan and how we can know anything about celestial objects that have travelled so far away their light will NEVER reach us. There's billions of tons of "dark matter" in the Universe which basically holds it all together and it's quite possible that there are black holes where stuff from our Universe goes somewhere else.
Add to that the idea of anti-matter and I'm damned lucky I went to school in the sixties. I'm now totally out of my depth. But yes we know WHERE the explosion occurred!
2007-02-11 06:22:34 · answer #2 · answered by salubrious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An explosion of space, not in space. The theory of the big bang must address problematic questions of what was before and what was the cause of the "bang". I wish it was as simple as a bull's eye you could see, but it is not. Latest I have read suggest our solar system and galaxy are moving in a specific direction like the other parts of the universe all away from something, even though the proponents of this theory claim there is no such central point.
2007-02-11 06:19:41 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As yet there is no defined point/area where the big bang started. Since the universe is expanding, an observer at any point in the universe sees other galaxies moving away from his observation point so he would conclude that he is at the center - which would not be true.
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2007-02-11 06:52:17 · answer #4 · answered by 63vette 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a good question - but not answerable. It happened everywhere. Time and space were created with the big bang - so the original point of creation was everywhere all at once.
2007-02-12 08:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The explosion created space. ITs some weird maths/physics jargin that explains were and how it happens but it's sooooo confusing and don't think anyone actually knows.
2007-02-11 07:47:50 · answer #6 · answered by spatchyboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this cannot be answered ...
unless you mean it word by word and really saying all planets move outwards, then the sun would have been the center. ..
but I guess you have to rephrase you question to make clear what you want to know.
2007-02-11 07:51:55 · answer #7 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wasn't a 'big bang' it's just the scientist's name for creation.
2007-02-11 15:52:59 · answer #8 · answered by andrew w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The farther we can see anything the farther back in time we are looking. There is no center. There is no end.
2007-02-11 06:16:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question, yet a complicated math problem. You have to measure the physics and all that kind of stuff.
2007-02-11 06:05:31 · answer #10 · answered by Alex 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋