Does anyone know where the Big bang occured in space?

Question

You would think that the closer you came to the center of the occurance the more chance you would find a civalization that would be older and more advanced than ours. You would also think that we would focus our exploration direction in that area first.

Answer 1

What we think we know about the big bang suggests that it occured in what is now the center of the universe. But remember we haven't proven the big bang. We know what occured a few miliseconds after the big bang but we do not know what happend during the big bang or before. All we can see are the results.

The idea of looking toward toward the center of this occurance seems to have merit but think about it. The galaxies at the center of the universe, nearest the big bang, are likely the newest to result from the bang. The oldest would be the ones that were released first and have traveled the fartherest from the center. So which way to point radio telescopes is anybody's guess.

As far as finding ET life, imagine the distances that are involved in the universe. Supposing that there is an intelligent species out there it could be millions of light years from earth. That means that any message or communication that they may have sent out into space will take millions of years to reach us. Humans have only had the technology to recieve such communications for a number of decades. And we will in all likelyhood be extinct in a few million years.

99.9% of all species ever to exist are now extinct. That's probably true of the world where our imaginary ETs live. So with that much distance and time envolved, the odds that they could send out a signal at precisely the time required to reach us at a time that we inhabited earth and had the capacity to hear it is infintesimally small.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, that's not how the theory works.

Basically, your mistake is implicitly assuming that the Big Bang occured in space and therefore has a defined center therein.

However, the theory is such that the Big Bang is what created space as we know it. Therefore, it can't have a defined center in space - it occurred "everywhere".

Answer 3

The big bang happened right where you are sitting/standing now.

It is hard to think of this, but what is going on is that space is expanding as a result of the big bang and where you are is just as central to where it occurred as anywhere else.

Answer 4

The Big Bang literally happened everywhere at once. It is not an explosion in the usual sense. Instead, space itself expands and that happens everywhere. There is no 'center of the universe'.

Answer 5

the big bang is what started the universe......okay so i took astronomy last year if i remember right they believed that the matter was shrinking until it go to a point where it was so dense that it exploded to send matter out in every direction.....it's kind of funny that all the matter that makes up the infinate universe was so small it was almost microscopic....but there are things called white holes that are like the opposite of a black hole they force matter out of it rather than take it in. they are however only theories not based on accuall fact.

Answer 6

The big bang is still happening today with the expansion of the universe still occuring rough estimates prode to it litrally happening at the epicentre or the middle of the universe - it makes sennse when you really think of it as a non-rancorous object with a simple premise...

Answer 7

over there by the center

Answer 8

In the center of the current universe

Answer 9

You can't get to the center because there is no center.