2007-03-16 23:28:49 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
From page 241 of "Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space"...
"...Is there then a center of the universe, a point from which all the galaxies are receding? It would seem that there ought to be, but there isn't, because the expansion of the universe is not taking place in the usual three-dimensional fashion. It is four-dimensional, involving not only the three ususal dimensions of ordinary space (length, width, and height), but also a fourth dimension of time. It is hard to picture a four-dimensional expansion.... [Here Dr. Asimov uses an analogy of an expanding balloon, and asks us to imagine that we can only observe its surface, and not its interior, as it expands].... it is someplace in time past, billions of years ago, and we can't travel there."
2007-03-17 00:15:33 · answer #1 · answered by Stewart 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Lol no one answered your question. There was no center of the Big Bang. Think of a room and a ball in the center. Take away the room you are left with the ball and nothing else. When I mean nothing I mean nothing including empty space, blackness, etc. There was nothing but the highly dense matter which exploded expanding space. Why it exploded is up for grabs there is a recent theory called M-Theory which tires to explain why.
Hope this helps.
2007-03-18 03:15:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The center of the big bang was a single space-time pulse that originated some time around 10 to the minus 95 of a second after time zero.
2007-03-17 07:24:06 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Big Bang happened everywhere. At the instant of the Big Bang, all of matter AND space were concentrated at one point - the entire universe was in one point - mind-boggling, but true! Since all of space was in that one point, the big bang happened everywhere.
2007-03-17 12:08:58 · answer #4 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Big Bang theory is one among the many theories that was used to explain the origin of the universe.
2007-03-17 07:16:05 · answer #5 · answered by neumor 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Big Bang had no centre; it happened through all of space, and in fact was mostly complete before space-time came into existence. So the centre was everywhere, and nowhere.
2007-03-17 06:43:18 · answer #6 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The universe has no center. It's isotropic, meaning that no matter where you are in it that point appears to be the center because everything else is rushing away from you.
2007-03-17 08:55:42 · answer #7 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I would guess that the big bang came from a black hole exploding that swallowed up planets and maybe universes before time as we know it, These are probably going off all the time so there is no start or end!!
2007-03-17 06:46:22 · answer #8 · answered by Chris 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Scientists say that the Centre of the Big Bang was a nucleus of an atom.
2007-03-17 06:43:36 · answer #9 · answered by Shyam 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
big bang is only a theory about the origin of the Universe... since its a theory, we don't either know if it is true or not because it is not proven...
2007-03-17 08:23:06 · answer #10 · answered by thea 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋