Atheists , What do you think about this?

Question

"The big bang theory holds that the universe began with a single explosion. Yet as can be seen, an explosion merely throws matter apart, while the big bang has mysteriously produced the opposite effect with matter clumping together forming galaxies"
Fred Hoyle,the intelligent universe
London, 1984, p. 184-185
Explosions don't bring about order however a perfect order arose after the big bang
What do you think?

where did order come from,

Answer 1

Not much.

Yes, the initial explosion of the Big Bang, or expansion, threw the areas of energy apart and caused it to cool off. Then when it was cool enough, the energy was able to coalesce into atomic particles, then hydrogen. Eventually, gravity pulled some of the hydrogen together and those pools of hydrogen heated up and caused the particles to fuse into helium and heavier particles. Then those stars exploded throwing the matter out in different directions, forming planets, asteroids, dust and even other stars.

As with most things in motion, things have reached certain equilibriums. When you have opposing forces, such as gravity versus centripetal force, they'll find an area where they are equal, at least for a time. As a whole, though, the universe is hardly in any "perfect order", no matter how you define "perfect".

Answer 2

Well, Hoyle's thory was the Steady State theory, which was disproved when the cosmic background radiation was found.

Further, the Big Bang was not a typical explosion. In a typical explosion, matter is flung through space and there is a center for the explosion. In contrast, for the Big Bang, it was (and is) actually space itself that is expanding and every place in the universe would see the same picture: there is no center of the expansion. Also, there were fluctuations (also called anisotropies) in the density after the Big Bang. These density fluctatuations are what ultimately condensed to form galaxies. Gravity is much more relevant on the cosmic scale than it is in a typical earth-based explosion.

Answer 3

Order from chaos as the chaos settles.

I can't imagine how big such an explosion would be, but as the matter moves through space it would feel the pull of other objects also moving through space. That would accellerate some particles, decellerate others, change courses, etc. Over time particles would clump together and form galaxies, much like the planets orbiting the sun form the solar system for this particular star.

Answer 4

I think matter, in sufficient quantities will be drawn together, no matter what. In any explosion matter will be thrown in all directions, but a lot of the matter thrown will be similarly close together wherever it "lands".

Space is a vacuum, which means that smaller particles of matter will be more easily drawn to the "gravity" of larger particles because they won't have the energy to escape it. Thus, things come together and create stars, and planets and other objects in the space.

And don't even start with anti-matter and black holes and worm holes and all the other mathematical possibilities.

"Perfect order" is a bit of a bold statement, but certainly there is symmetry in nature. Some believe it is the work of a God, others believe it is simply the nature of energy to find a "lowest order" and "rest" whenever possible.

I don't know which is right, but I'm looking forward to learning the answer.

Answer 5

Hoyle is wrong here. The big bang was an expansion rather than an explosion, since the term explosion means something expanding into an existing space rather than an expansion of space itself. But, explosion or not, there would be turbulence: you will have extremely high Reynolds numbers, and turbulence is thus guaranteed. Any time you have turbulent flows, you will have variations in density, and these would lead to galaxies, individual stars, and eventually to the form of the universe we see today.

Answer 6

Wow... somebody should learn their astrophysics before they write books.

Okay, here's a little "Big Bang for Dummies"

The universe used to be compressed in an infinitesimal point, like mousse inside a bottle of shaving cream. Eventually, two quantum particles collided together and let out this huge amount of energy, causing a chain reaction. That reaction caused the breaking of the infinitesimal point, like you pressed the top of your shaving cream bottle.

As all that matter was projected away from the center, it collided together and formed clusters. If you sent your shaving cream up in the air, as it fell down, you would notice that each drop didn't went seperately, but formed bubbles of cream of different shapes and sizes.

Because of the different velocities of the particles colliding together, they started twirling, istead of blowing apart again, like fireworks (well, it did exploded, but not all of it and I don't want to bother you with details).

As the rotation went along, bubbles of particles fused together, forming galaxies within the clusters. Then there where collisions within those collisions and formed stars. Then there where collisions again, as not everything was pulled together by the star's gravity and the matter that was left attracted each other's gravity and formed planets.

And, voilà! You have a universe.

Answer 7

The "Big Bang" is a kind of mis-nomer because it leads one to think there was a big "BANG!" and there wasn't. There was no sound at all and it was not an explosion as we know them. The universe did not explode into empty space - there was no space. The space was created as the universe expanded! Additionally, as the universe expanded, some very unique and special things happened. Particle froze out of the cooling of the universe and matter was born. This was a somewhat orderly process and nothing like a piece of dynamite exploding into a million bits. Stars coalesced out of the myriad of particles that had been created and the universe AS WE KNOW IT came to be.

Answer 8

Well first the description of the Big Bang as an explosion is incorrect. Second, gravity causes things to come together. Obviously that is somewhat of a simple explanation, but the answer is gravity.

Answer 9

1. Look at an explosion site. Materials are not distributed evenly. Gravity clumped material at the sites of higest concentration.

2. If there were perfect order, galaxies would not have formed since it was local concentrations of matter that seeded the galaxies.

Answer 10

From chaos comes order. The big bang set in motion a chain of events that lead to the creation of life on earth and evolution made it what it is today.

Either that or one family repopulated the entire planet through centuries of inbreeding following a flood of epic proportions.