If we have models of the universe and we have the ability to advance to see where the galaxies will be in the long run, can we theoretically move the clock back and see where the universe started. I dont know if its just me or not.
2007-04-12 09:38:47 · 18 answers · asked by LiL' Bowlby 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A reasonable question.
The answer: we can try.
Maybe its some place that doesn't exist anymore.
Maybe its everywhere.
Maybe no-body has thought of the answer yet, but only through the processes and methods of science can we get closer to the truth.
2007-04-12 09:45:35 · answer #1 · answered by asgspifs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure would be cool to go there and see if there are any beer cans or party hats lying around!!! I understand it was a real big band...
I don't know how literal/figurative to take this but it was explained to me that all the galaxies are moving as if they are on the surface of a balloon that's being inflated. If that's literal then I would think we could just look in which direction the galaxies are moving the fastest away (the most red-shifted light) and that should be the other side of the balloon, leaving the original center half way in between us and them. If that's a figurate picture, then that "baloon thing" was just a 3-d cross section of a 4-d, 5-d, or 11-d reality in which case, it could be a lot harder to find the center...
2007-04-18 20:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by Nash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the galaxies seem to be moving away from us because the universe is still expanding. Imagine yourself in a small group of people, and everyone starts to move outwards from the center. Everyone gets farther away from you, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you were at the center. I would think this makes finding the center (where it all started) harder. But I would also think that if we could see in which direction the galaxies are traveling (dunno if we've been watching them long enough to have accurate data), then we could find an epicenter. That epicenter would be where 'The Big Bang' (there are some conflicting theories on just what The Big Bang consisted of) happened, which would be where the universe started.
Also, searching Google could help. ;)
2007-04-12 16:53:51 · answer #3 · answered by MyHouse,MD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All we have are theories. All are plausible.... but truthfully speaking, there is no way we will ever know. That's where the creator theory from different religions comes into it own. How do you create matter out of nothing? Even the most daring theory bases itself on some kind of matter or explosion. What was there to create that? I don't want to make this into a religious or scientific debate. These are just questions you ask if you clean your mind of what was taught to you and think only on your lines. I suppose if someone did an experiment and created a universe... then we might see... but what do we do with the fledgling universe? Thanks for the question, really got my mind going.
2007-04-20 13:54:07 · answer #4 · answered by btiger75 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can only go back to time zero.
theory could take us behind time zero and postulate a scenario that could result in a universe like this.
It will always remain theoretical,but the fact is that we are here and at one time we were not.
Before time zero there had to be a potential and the potential had to be finite.
If there was no potential then nothing could have produced the universe.
If the potential had not been finite nothing could have initiated it to come into existence.
2007-04-13 09:04:00 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't really tell where it started, because every where you go looks like the center, but it started by an explosion we like to call the "big boom". It was an explosion of gasses that ended up forming the planets millions of billions of years later. Since then, the planets have moved many, many miles, so we don't know where it started. If we can find out how the universe started, we could certainly find out where... with massive amounts of technology...
2007-04-20 06:36:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We may know it if our technology can get us to the ends of the universe.
According to the books that I've read even if we use time travelling to get to the beginning of time, the ceator will not let us se Him.
2007-04-19 01:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by Evan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everywhere. There was no universe when it began. It became the whole universe. There's no one point where it began.
2007-04-12 17:06:30 · answer #8 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Astronomers have discovered that distant galaxies are all flying away from US. So that must mean that WE are actually at the very center, doesn't it, so this is where the universe all started.
At least that's MY interpretation ;)
2007-04-12 16:46:54 · answer #9 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If is the biggest two letter word there is , and if is a big question .
Everything is made from sound vibrations (oscillating motion waves).
2007-04-20 14:15:31 · answer #10 · answered by Gary B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋