In which direction in the Sky was the Big Bang?

Answer 1

I would assume all of them.

Answer 2

this question doesn't make sense as the sky is only relative to earth. the sky doesn't exist in space where the big bang occurred. so to say this question is rubbish as the big bang happened outside of the sky. but the big bang is likely to have happened after a "big crunch" in a never ending cycle (or so some people believe). so theoretically the big bang was at the centre of the universe and we are located some distance form the centre moving away from it but we may eventually move back toward it assuming the sun doesn't swallow us first.

Answer 3

As some have said above, all directions, and in fact at all distances. We're inside it. Because of the finite speed of light, things near us are the oldest (that is, most removed in time from the Big Bang). Things far away are younger, and the Cosmic Microwave Background comes from only 400,000 years after the Big Bang. It is almost identical in all directions, with a brightness of 2.7 K. The Cosmic Microwave Background is opaque, but hidden behind it are regions that are younger still---and at our event horizon, the instant of the Big Bang would still be seen in shell surrounding us in all directions, except that there are no particles that escape directly from that time to us.

Answer 4

Everywhere and nowhere.

Like various people have already pointed out, since the big bang *created* space (& time), there was no "direction" to point in before then, and it actually happened everywhere.

It took me the longest time to "click" on this one, but the illustration that actually got me to understand is the "blowing up a balloon":

First, imagine space as two-dimensional, instead of three dimensional. Like the entire universe is an infinitely-large piece of paper that we are "drawings" on. We can move in two dimensions, left/right and forward/backward, but not up/down (those directions don't exist for us).

Next, curve that piece of paper into a sphere. Like a spherical balloon, where we are "drawings" on the surface. We can still move in two dimensions, but if we keep going for long enough we'll return to where we started from. We cannot move Up from the surface of the balloon or Down into the centre of the balloon. In our model, Up/Down are actually going to be Forwards and Backwards in time!

Next, compress the balloon down until it is an infinitely-small dot (a "singularity" - which is how the Big Bang started), and then inflate it.
Everything on the surface of the balloon (in other words, everything in the universe) is now moving away from everything else on the balloon surface, because our universe is expanding. As we move forwards in time, the balloon is expanding, and everything is moving outwards from the centre.
But, there is nowhere on the balloon surface that the Big Bang started. That was the centre of the balloon, and was when *everything* was still there.

The confusing part is then making the leap that our universe is like that balloon, except that space has three dimensions, and the universe is expanding in a fourth dimension (time).

I hope this has helped, and not just confused you...

Answer 5

The BB encompasses the entirety of the universe so any direction, however the Milky Way is moving in the direction of The Great Attractor in Centaurus. Which means we've come from Andromeda or Cassiopeia.

Answer 6

The Big Bang was in all around us and in a sense still is. We're still detective energy from the big bang! The Big Bang didn't occur in space or time, it created spacetime in itself. That's why the Big Bang wasn't in a specific direction.

Here are some websites:
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/cmb_intro.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060201/ai_n16028473
http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~dine/chaihouse_big_bang.ppt

Answer 7

In ALL directions. You're IN the Big Bang.

Answer 8

everywhere, without the big bang there wouldnt have been a sky.

Answer 9

all over statements are correct in that its in all directions but the person that said the things closer to us are older and the things further away are younger is wrong.

Its actually the other way round the things in the universe that are the furthest away are the oldest objects in the universe mainly Quasars. Look at the following websites to understand better what I'm trying to say.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/the_universe/Lookback.html&sn=0&art=ok&cdp=/windows3.html&cd=false&frp=/windows3.html&fr=f&sw=false&tour=&edu=high
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMAXV2PGQD_index_2.html
http://www.news24.com/News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_995506,00.html
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/report-24475.html

I hope that this helps answer your question.

Answer 10

Theoretcially speaking, It would have occured in the center of the universe so therefore it is in every direction.

Answer 11

North east, southwest, west east, east east, north north, south south over the south down by the east further west and a little north then first thought.