In terms of distance, how far away are we from the calculated site of the Big Bang?

Question

I'm sure scientists have calculated from red shift data approximately where the Big Bang took place. Where are we in relationship tp that? And what is the estimated diameter of the universe?

Are you guys suggesting that we are at the edge of our universe? We aren't even at the edge of our galaxy! Where are we compared to the ret of the universe?

We certainly are not at the center of our universe. So where are we in terms of distance to all other known mass?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation
http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147

this is actually a common misconception about the big bang. the universe is finite yet has no boundaries. it has no center and no edge. it seems to be something like the two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional sphere. nothing inside or outside the sphere exists for the surface. the cosmic microwave background is from a time when the universe was 380 000 years old, and we observe it in every direction in which we look. the cmb was originally black-body radiation of material at about 3000K, but we observe it as black-body radiation of 2.7K because of the stretching of light due to the expansion of the universe. this is a redshift of 1089. the big bang was the whole universe, and everywhere in the universe was once the big bang. observations by nasa's microwave anisotropy probe suggest that the cmb is at least 46 billion light-years away, that it is receding at 50c, and that the universe is 13.7 billion years old.

Answer 2

The BB happened right HERE, and right EVERYWHERE; the universe came to exist from the Big Bang, and since spacetime is a property of the universe, everywhere's where it happened.

Current theories state the volume of the universe is about 80,000,000,000 light years across, which may sound like a contradiction since it's only 14,000,000,000 years old. But the fact is, there's nothing stopping space from expanding faster than the speed of light, since Hubble's red-shift is not actual motion or acceleration but is the expansion of space itself.

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Are you guys suggesting that we are at the edge of our universe? We aren't even at the edge of our galaxy! Where are we compared to the rest of the universe?
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We certainly are not at the center of our universe. So where are we in terms of distance to all other known mass?
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We're not at the centre of the universe because there IS no centre of the universe, and neither is there an edge of the universe; it's finite but has *no edges*. However, the distance to the boundary of known space is defined by the distance light has traveled since space became transparent. That is by definition equally distant from us in all directions so we are exactly in the middle and there is an exactly identical amount of mass in every direction.

Answer 3

you cannot think of the big bang as a localized explosion like a stick of dynamite in a room, instead you have to think of it more like this, there is nothing but that stick of dynamite, everything is inside of it and then it explodes. you can't really say it happened here or there because it was everywhere that we would know of.

this is how it is with the big bang. we're not at the center or at the edge, because there is no center and there is no edge. the big bang is still happening even as we speak.the universe continues to expand. it looks like we are in the center but actually we are not. if we were on some galaxy 10 billion light years away it would look like that galaxy is at the center.

Answer 4

That question assumes that all matter was contained in a tiny spot in a giant empty space and that the space already existed but was empty. That is not what the big bang theory says. The big bang theory says that SPACE started expanding. All matter AND space had zero size and then started expanding. So every spot in space used to be at the location of the big bang.

So what is space expanding into? I am not sure how to answer that. Hyper space? A higher dimension? Or just "non-space". It is all too weird.

Answer 5

The big bang happened everywhere in the universe simultaneously.

Answer 6

We are 0.0 miles away. The Big Bang consists of the universe - not a point from which it started. We are *IN* the explosion itself.

Answer 7

OK. I get what you guys are saying. But unless the universe is infinite (doubtful), then it should have a center. We are aproximately 15 billion light years from the center, and, thusly 30 billion light years in diameter.

Answer 8

It is impossible to calculate with our existing finite minds.

Answer 9

"the universe is about 80,000,000,000 light years across"? I thought it was 85,000,000,000 LY.

This changes EVERTHING!!

Answer 10

we have begone to understand more about the Universe.
thus we will learn that the big bang location
is the Bright star which is the sun.......
we are being drawn back to the source.........
It Blew the planets out...........
now it pulls them back into it's self