I normally don't ask Atheists questions but i have been curious about something!?

Question

The Big Bang was basically a enormous explosion I'm guessing which sent debris shooting in every direction, so what are the odds that all the planets of this solar system and all of the planets moons are going the same direction around the sun and planets on basically the same plane? Why isn't there one going the opposite direction or at a 6 to 12 rotation while the earth is at a 3 to 9 rotation! I really don't know the answer and if one of you can explain it to me with out calling me stupid I'll be surprised!

Answer 1

I can't help being confused as to why you appear to have not even the most basic knowledge of The Big Bang. I was taught it in science at 12 years old in middle school??? I'm sorry, I just don't get it at all.

Answer 2

You are mistaken, three planets and several moons revolve backwards.

edit: wait, you mean the ORBITS? Yeah, look into gravity sometime. And solar system formation.

1. The big bang was not an explosion. Space itself expanded (and is still expanding).
2. The big bang is quite a different subject from the formation of solar systems. Rotations within the universe are not expected to be related to any rotation of the cosmos. Galaxies probably arose from slightly denser regions of the early universe, which coalesced and combined due to gravitational and viscous interactions. Since these early density fluctuations were apparently random, we expect galaxies to have random orientations. Solar systems within galaxies have still different origins and additional random influences on their orientations.
3. Conservation of angular momentum doesn't require that everything spin the same way. It requires that a change in spin in one object be compensated for by an opposite change in spin in one or more other objects. Retrograde planets are not a violation of angular momentum because other bodies in the early solar system could account for the compensating spin.

Answer 3

The Big Bang wasn't an explosion, it was an expansion.

Think of when you drop a pebble in water, rings go out from the center on the same plane. Now, imagine a large mass, like another rock, the rings are going to create smaller rings around the larger mass.

As the universe expands, gravity takes over. Gravity causes heavy things to attract each other and group together. Smaller objects that travel near the larger masses are going to get trapped in the gravitational pull, and start to circle the object with more mass.

Answer 4

You're grievously misinformed.

The Big Bang took place a looong time before the formation of the solar system. In fact, everything in the solar system, including us, is the debris of ancient supernovae.

But the answer to your specific question about the orbits of the planet is that they were all formed from the same protosolar cloud of gas and dust, which started collapsing in on itself over 7 billion years ago as the result of 3 nearby supernovae. As it collapsed, it formed a disk and began to rotate (as all such things do when their random angular momenta add together).

Eventually, the bulge at the centre became dense enough to start fusion, and the Sun started to shine. This explosion blew most of the remaining light matter away, leaving only the densest clumps in stable orbits. Those clumps collapsed themselves, under gravity, to form the planets. Including earth.

That's why they all go round together.

CD

Answer 5

The odds are high. Solar systems form from huge clouds of gas that are more or less floating around in one area and staying together. When they collapse due to gravity, any small rotation that exists is magified like a skater pulling his legs in. This gets the whole cloud rotating the same direction. When the planets condense they are thus all moving the same way. This can be changed by collisions but in most cases you will get all planets going the same direction.

EDIT: Can we now all assume that you are in fact surprised?

Answer 6

Actually it wasn't an explosion. It was an outwards expansion, and since the universe is still expanding outwards (Hubble's law), I would say that the Big Bang Theory is plausible.
The laws of gravity, physics and mathematics dictate the movement of the planets in orbit. Uranus spins on a different axis, for example, like the poster above said. And orbits can change.

Answer 7

solar system is assumed to have come from something like a spinning disk of matter.
Spin would stay and not get reversed (imagine spinning top, it doesn't change direction either).
Disk would determine plane.
Inequal distribution of matter and gravity will create sun/planets

Sorry, I am not current in the birth of solar system, that's as much as I can remember from physics in school. If you go to the library and check out some astronomy books you will be able to find a detailed answer.

Answer 8

Uranus.

No, that's not me calling you a name. Uranus spins on a different axis.

As far as everything rotating in the same direction around the Sun, it's the same thing that causes the water to turn the same direction every time you flush the toilet. Gravity.

The best explanations are independently testable and verifiable, though, so I'd encourage you to flush your toilet a few times and observe the results.

Answer 9

Supposedely before the big bang nothing existed!, so where does that leave your theory?.
In one country in Europe, they are suposed to imitate the big bang theory, it is all set up, and I have heard nothing else about it lately. They had set this up, in a very large area, In s Greece, and if you have any questions, I'll find out, whatever became of it, as even scientists, from Us, And Other Europian countries are involved
EDIT-You can be stuck on your own ideas, of what was, or how the big bang occured, do not write off something that you havent heard about, this is supposed to prove what happened afterwards,
especially at the very second the big bang occured, and
what followed.
When You hear about it You will understand!, as I have no other proof I can give you accept the facts stated above..
You dont know, dont Judge my answer, as it is based on fact, and when it happens, You will say, hey I heard that on YA
but I didnt believe it. I am surprised that none of you scholars??, have not heard about the experiment!.

Answer 10

I think it's rather amusing that you assume that only atheists believe that the Big Bang theory is the most plausible one in determining how the earth was formed. I am a Christian and I believe it. I've taught kids this, but I also helped them to realize that God allowed the Big Band and evolution to occur. Why do you think God isn't capable of such things? Why do you limit God's abilities to what you want him to do? Seems a bit blasphemous to me.