A Short History Of Nearly Everything?

Question

I have a couple of questions about the book "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.

1. In the book it says that proof of the Big Bang is the fact that something came from nothing. I agree that there is obviously "something" now (the universe), but how can you say that it was nothing before and that all that is a "fact"?

2. And has there ever been an occurance in science, in perhaps a smaller size (so that we could have witnessed it with our own eyes) that had similarities to the Big Bang theory? Or is the creation of the universe the only place that anything even remotely similar to the Big Bang theory has ever happened?

3. If i understand correctly, Singularity has no dimensions, right? Ok but then...what exactly does it look like, if it has not even a 2 dimensional size? Doesnt even the most thinnest line have 2 dimensions?

4. If Comic Background Radiation is the radiation left over from the effects of the Big Bang, and it can be found at the edge of the universe....then how does the theory the universe is infinite fit in?

5. And if there really is an edge of the universe, then what is beyond the edge? If the only matter or the only anything that exists is the matter within the universe, but yet there is still something outside it…what do you even call that outside “stuff”? Can you call it space? And whats beyond it?

Whoops sorry i meant Cosmic Background Radiation. :D

I know my question are all a bit out there, its just that reading that book brought up a lot of questions in my head. So i´d really appreciate any answers you could give me. Thank you in advance. =))

lol Yasmin C, i kinda had all those questions in my head already but yeah it did take a long time for me to be able to find the right words...and i dont think i even got them right now. lol :)

lol okay lifeisrandom34, thanks alot for your advice. :)

Im sorry guys i hope i didnt give you a headache with all my crazy questions, i know they are kind of heavy. But thank you for taking the time anyway. =)

Answer 1

A lot of what you ask can only be explained and demonstrated with math, you can't do small scale experiments. For an explanation of what a singularity looks like read Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Read some hard science fiction by someone like Larry Niven for a description that you can get your head around. Get Nature magazine. Eventually you'll get some sort of picture or you won't. You're thinking you can be an observer but it doesn't work like that, there is no place to stand where you can see these things. You can see the effects however, look up the Hubble website.

Answer 2

YOU know 4 years i know there are two sides to every story or theory or fact. BUT i cant help but believe some one greater created all of this, just so we would argue over the fact s and theorys. The last QUESTION yes the thinnest line does have two dimensions. AS 4 the BIG bang THEORY remember its only a theory.

Answer 3

Take my advise, go find a new section to ask your smart question in. Nobody here has the willpower to read all that. I'm not trying to get rid of you, honestly.

Answer 4

A short history of nearly everything: God creates heaven and earth. God creates life forms. Life forms create Nuclear Weapons. Boom no heaven or earth

Answer 5

You brain power is far too immense for P/S.

Answer 6

it must of took a long time to write that.

Answer 7

But what is your point??