If there was a Big Bang, where is the Big Crater?

Question

I do not want explanations as to why it would not be a crater, as it is not really a bang either, my point is simple. Something blowing up that violently is going to leave a big crater in some form and it should be extremely noticeable.

For those of you giving me crazy, silly answers that it is somewhere on the planet earth, you make a good point. Perhaps the earth is at the center of the universe, otherwise we should see the "edge." Scientists give weird reasons why this is not so, but no matter how one looks at it, the explanations just put us all that much closer to the "Big Crater." Are we floating in some mysterious point in space where we can see neither the center or the "edges"?

Well this is kind of a trick question, I have asked it to many professors, some of them very high-level. Throughout the years, I am sure I asked some at JPL, NASA, Los Alamos, all my professors at college, some retired semi-famous scientists, etc. None of them can answer this question.

I have read some of Einstein, Hawkings, and a bunch of guys, and so far none of them really touch the subject. By the way, reason would indicate that such an explosion should be one of the most perfect explosions to have occured, nothing that we see today could match it. It would have exploded into something, something which would not have contained space, time, or matter. How do you measure velocity, mass, or area then?

Answer 1

The earth is not the center of the universe.

The Big Crater was probably a void at the point where the Big Bang took place. This point is difficult to identify due to the difficulty involved in determining relative motion between the galaxies since they are all moving relative to each other. Also, the interaction of galaxies over billions of years have changed their motion and masked any vector motion they (or the gas clouds the coalesced from) originally had from the point of the Big Bang.

Answer 2

Your question "Big Bang - Big Crater" indicates that you are trying to understand the theory in terms of things that you know and understand here on Earth. However, to
reach an understanding of the "Big Bang Theory" you must make a huge leap in thinking to a place in outer space where there was no surface such as the surface of the Earth. There was only outer space (a vacuum). Now,
in that space was a huge star, possibly a super giant, and it began to expand, devouring (swallowing) all matter floating in the reasonably near vicinity. Everything was sucked into the center of the star by the massive pull of the star's gravity. At some point the star swallowed to much material and became unstable. It became so unstable that it finally exploded in a massive erruption of material. Everything shot outwards from the center of what used to be the star. This was the concept of the Big Bang in a few words.

To see the same thing happen in real life on Earth, take a Cherry Bomb or Super Salute Firecracker, light the fuse, and launch it up into the air before it explodes. When it explodes, bits of material that formed the wrapper will fly out in all directions. Nothing will be left of the original firecracker but thousands and thousands of little bitty
shreds of paper and cardboard wrapper. There is no crater because the explosion happened up in the air, and not on the ground. This is similar to the Big Bang happening out in deep space.

What is noticeable today from the Big Bang is that all parts of the Milky Way Galaxy are moving outwards at a
measureable rate. Scientists and Astronomers have been collecting data on this fact for years and years. So they are quite sure their information is correct. Now, what makes billions of things all move outward at a measureable rate? Maybe a big explosion sometime in the past? If so, it should be possible to work backwards using some complex math to determine about how long this expansion has been going on... And, they have done exactly that. They calculate that this big bang of an explosion must have happened some 13.7 Billion years ago.

For a really nice explanation of the Big Bang theory, I would like to refer you to Ian Ridpath's Book, ASTRONOMY, DK Publishing, NY, NY. Starting on Page 48 he provides color illustrations of what must have happened at that time.

If you cannot locate a copy of this book, I suggest then the following Internet Site:

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/

There you will find many discussions and illustrations of types of stars, the big bang theory, discussions of galaxies, and hundreds of photos of outer space which will truly amaze you.

As you read from either of those references please keep in mind that the size of the known, measureable universe is roughly 45 Billion Light Years in every direction and still growing. That is the fartherest distance to objects that we can see. It is not the end of the universe by any means. You simply cannot measure from here out to nothing and obtain a figure for distance.

Answer 3

Back in the '60s, researchers at Bell Labs measuring radio and microwave sources in the sky discovered a noise that didn't change at all from day to night, from month to month, or anywhere regardless of where they pointed their antenna. Usually this means the antenna has been befouled by bird droppings (or something!) but further tests along with work from other scientists determined that what they had discovered was the radiation left over from the Big Bang. The wavelength of the radiation corresponds to that emitted by an object that is at approximately -455 degrees (F), or about 3 Kelvins above absolute zero. The radiation is your "crater"; it is the universe cooling off after the explosion billions of years ago, it appears to be everywhere, and its discovery pretty much killed off any other serious theories about the origin of the universe.

Answer 4

Gulf of Mexico

Answer 5

i don't think there was anything. so there for i think that earth is getting pulled in to a big black hole this is where we then jump on to the next planet which then starts the next circle trees/grass/flowers/water/oxygen and so on. this is where i think the government have something up their sleeves the rich get on the shuttle while the poor stay here and die. i also think that's what happened before and it was us who pulled the trigger on the dinosaurs

Answer 6

The question makes absolutely no sense. You need to learn a lot more about science and astronomy.

Answer 7

New Jersey.

Answer 8

gulf of Tonkin