Further to my question on the big bang......?

Question

If I accept that as i am told to travel at the speed of light would take more fuel than there is matter in the universe, how did matter ( all but sub atomic matter ) travel at these speeds during the early expansion of the universe when there was not enought matter to fuel the explosion and create the force..... Sorry I am just sitting at my desk thinking these things over..

Answer 1

This is quite a good question.

On the one hand, an infinite amount of energy is required to accelerate a particle that has mass to the speed of light.

One the other hand, there are plenty of particles in the Universe that are travelling faster than the speed of light with respect to each other--- the matter beyond our event horizon, for example, (more than 13.7 billion lightyears away) is moving away from us faster than the speed of light, and that is the vast majority of matter in the Universe.

The difference is explained by General Relativity. In the first case, the two particles are in a locally flat, Lorentz frame. The rules of Special Relativity then apply, and it is impossible for two particles to move faster than light with respect to each other. To do so would potenitally cause paradoxes in causality---events hapenning before their causes, etc.

In the second case, there are different Lorentz frames moving with respect to each other faster than the speed of light, but these Lorentz frames are so widely separated that no causality paradox can occur. This is perfectly OK in cosmology. Such a situation does not require any energy, since the Lorentz frames themselves have no inertia. The equations of General Relativity govern their relative motion, and the dynamics set out by those equations are not like any of the usual equaitons of mechanical motion with which we are familiar. Within each widely-separated Lorentz frame, the motions of the massive particles are governed by Special Relativity. The net result is that particles in the two widely-separated frames are moving faster than light with respect to each other, but this does not violate any rules of physics nor does it necessarily requre any expenditure of energy.

Answer 2

The problem with any form of creationist theory (be it atheistic or theistic) is the fact that no one can prove any of it. Perhaps the Big Bang was a reality, in the essence that a singularity compressed infinitely untill it exploded into the universe as we know it. This is just as far fetched as a Christian (or other creationist faith for that matter) who thinks that an omnipotent entity existed before everything existed, and made everything exist... Then took the universe, and created it to revolve around the tiny spec that is humanity. Actually... Never mind -- I think the big bang theory holds much more water, than the creationist plans of Romanism -- aka Christianity. After all, all of their other 'theories' about the universe were proven wrong - so why not its origins. Humanity needs to move forward - away from these archaic notions that Humanity is the all important focus of an omnipotent deity - and realize that we are a spec - basically an ant hill in the deep emptiness of space. Chance, has all of the abilities to create earth were it is and for what it does... There have been other extra-solar planets discovered that are in the same range known as the habitable zone, that may be able to, if not already support life - so it is only a matter of time before we find 'others' out there among the stars.. then the whole 'Humanity is the center of the universe' idea will be out the window.

Answer 3

You seem to be confused.

After the Big Bang, the ONLY type of matter was sub-atomic matter, mainly in the form of quarks and leptons. You also seem to be confused about the Big Bang itself. The Big Bang wasn't an explosion of energy. What happened was that the Universe began growing from a smaller size than it is now. As the universe began expanding, it started to drag this matter along with it. This matter didn't need to move: it simply was dragged along for the galactic ride.

Another thing that a lot of people don't know is: there was much more matter in the U at the time of the BB. There was billions and billions and trillions of times more baryonic matter than there is in all of our universe today. What happened is, the matter and anti-matter formed as a result of the BB came into contact and annihilated each other, leaving only our little bit of matter.

Hope that helped.

Answer 4

In the early universe, matter was not traveling at c, there was no explosion, and no force was propelling matter to the speed of light.

You have some misconceptions about the Big Bang theory. It was NOT an explosion which sent stuff out in all directions. The universe--- all of space--- is filled everywhere with galaxies and always has been. But the distances between the galaxies are getting bigger now. Not because they are streaming through space, but because space itself is stretching like a rubber band between them.

If distances are getting larger, they must have been smaller in the past. In the past, all of space was still filled everywhere with stuff, but there wasn't as much space then as there is now. There was no explosion, it's just that with the same amount of stuff occupying less available space, the early universe was hotter. Then, just as now, there was no overall motion of stuff through space; the spaces themselves between the particles of stuff stretched out between them.

So there was no explosion to fuel, and matter was not expelled or forced to travel at any speed, much less c.

Answer 5

I don't know where you get this not enough fuel business.

Only minimalist matter can travel at or near light speed. That means it has to be virtually massless in the sense of size and weight.

Photons qualify. Gamma rays and X Rays qualify.

These have very small mass

0.0000000000000001

All the mass of the universe is constant. So there was as much mass in the singularity as currently exists and when you have that much mass compatcting due to gravity you have atomic fusion, which releases small particle energy such as gamma rays, x-rays and then photons

These makeup your outter edge of the exapanding universe.

The fastest known large mass objects are Quasars travelling about about 2/3 light speed.

Answer 6

Motion and the cause of motion has nothing to do with a micromass moving at the speed of light. The rules of motion are the same for all moving masses.
In order for a mass to move power is required to make it move. So for micromass structure motion to exist ,micromasses had to first be created and with out the pressure of space they would not be able to move.

The rule for making a car move at a higher velocity is based upon Power increase. In order to increase to velocity of the car more gas fuel is required ,Hence an increase of power.
The same rules apply for all motion in space of the Universe.

Space Power is locked in the space substance as pressure.
Without space pressure no mass structure could move.
The smaller the mass the more pressure it has to move .Therefore light being the smallest mass in the Universe has the greater pressure and therefore moves faster that any other mass structures.
The formula for the speed of light is as follows;
C^2 =( Pressure of space) / (Density of the moving mass structure).
This explanation is Based on the Quantron theory of the Universe.
Food for thought;Have you ever thought that the Universe was constructed from the outside rather than from the inside as the Big Bang theory of expansion alludes to?

Answer 7

perhaps they were feeding off the energy of the collapsing universe prior to the big bang.