Can you name some evidence about the Big Bang?

Question

Ok, lets imagine you are walking in the street, and you see a car that was hit and is leaned in the corner. The car does look to be hit by a car, but you know that there is not automaker in the world. But somehow you believe that the car was created by some particles. But you still believe that there is not particle creator.

As a "police officer," I decide to find the person responsible for hitting the car that was leaned against the corner. How can I say that a another car, hit the car that was leaned against the corner?

Answer 1

I don't really know how to answer your question about the car, but it's completely and entirely unrelated to your question about the Big Bang, so I'll just ignore it.

Evidence for the Big Bang:

1) The universe is expanding. In simple terms, the Big Bang is still going on. No force has yet stopped the explosion that started billions of years ago. This can be observed most easily through the red shift of light from all directions in the Universe.

2) Cosmic background radiation. This is leftover energy from the Big Bang. It is highly uniform, indicating that early in the Universe matter was very evenly distributed. This is what would be expected if the Universe had started with the Big Bang.

3) The oldest stars yet found formed well after the time that the previous two pieces of evidence indicate the Big Bang occurred. In fact, star formation seems to have started right about the time one would predict it to have started given the timing of the Big Bang and the current levels of cosmic background radiation.

4) The ratio of light elements to heavy elements in the Universe is as predicted by Big Bang theory. Obviously, shortly after the Big Bang the energy density in the Universe was much higher than it is now (essentially the same amount of energy in smaller space). This excess energy (primarily in the form of heat) made the formation of elements impossible. Only after a long time could hydrogen (the simplest element) form. Even now, hydrogen and helium are by far the most abundant elements in the Universe, because heavier elements form almost exclusively through nuclear fusion inside stars (which, as I mentioned, took a long time to form).

I won't go into more detail, since it would be difficult to explain to someone who isn't fairly well-versed in science. Since you seem to doubt the Big Bang occurred, you're obviously not very well-versed in science. Hope this helps. If you want to know more, try reading some books on the subject.

Answer 2

You started off with a question that was and is answerable and then you left logic and reason behind (way, way behind) and went off on some rant that made no sense.

There is significant background radiation which is measurable and verifiable as cosmic residue from the Big Bang.
As we look out into distant space, we are actually looking back in time, due to the distance the light from the objects in our view has had to travel for us to see the same. Thus we are able to see how stars, planets and solar systems, etc., have developed and formed.

The second part of your question is a conveluted philosophy question.

According to Locke and Hume, you do not know what caused the car to appear in the condition in which you found it, you simply now that it is in the state i which it was discovered by you.
However, you do know that there must be someone or something that makes automobiles as you are looking at one which appears to have crashed. The car which appears crashed came from somewhere!

As a "police officer" it would be your duty to record the facts and only the facts, not to make wild assumptions as to what happen. Unless the verifiable and reliable facts and supporting eveidence exist to clearly show that the car which appears crashed was struck by another auto then you can not make such a claim.

Is there proof of a second auto? Tire marks, pieces which may have come off such during the collision?

If there is no "auto maker in the world" where did the first car come from?

Can you breathe with your head so far up there?

Perhaps your lack of oxygen is impairing your ability to think clearly!

Answer 3

Depending on how fast someone hit the car it could have possibly went flying, or you could check for paint marks? I'm not an expert, but this is what I would look into first. Personally when you said can you name some evidence about the big bang I thought you meant what scientists believe how the earth came to be. Which I don't believe at all. God created the earth and people can't fight that. Everything has a maker. A car does, and so do we. How do you explain DNA. If this is what you really wanted to know then you should read the book "One Heartbeat away" it explains it all if you don't believe me.

Answer 4

Certainly. Your rather odd analogy aside, there's two major pieces of evidence for an inflationary universe.

Firstly, all the stars and galaxies are moving. And they're all moving away from us. Every single one. That suggests we're either at the centre of the universe (which is a bit egocentric), or everything is moving apart from everything else. Y'know, as if it had all been thrown out by some enormous explosion.

Secondly, we've already detected the residuals of that explosion, also blueshifted as it moves away from us, but uniform in every direction. This appears as a constant source of background microwave radiation. When you used to be able to turn a TV to a dead channel, about 1% of the static on the screen was the birth of the universe.

Answer 5

The "Big Bang" is a description of the origin event of the Universe. It is based on a great deal of evidence, the two most compelling:

The cosmic background radiation that is everywhere, at just the frequency Big Bang theory predicts.

The fact all but a few local extra-galactic objects are moving away from us, with the further away they are the faster they are moving.

Note - a description is NOT an explanation. It says what happened, not why it happened.

Answer 6

you can't but then again in your example you wouldn't even know it was a car because there is no particle creator or automaker in your world.

once you erase all knowledge no knowledge exists. that would include streets and police officers. since the big bang theory is based on volumes of factual scientific study (try reading more) you can either accept it or not.

Answer 7

Do you mean the Big Bang from the car smashing?

If you mean the Big Bang at the beginning of our universe, there is compelling explanations for the evidence we've found so far that you can research. Until someone comes up with equally compelling or more compelling explanations for the evidence, we're stuck with the ones we've got. It is possible that we may have to accept that we will never figure out exactly what happened in those first few nanoseconds with the one point.

Possibly, to understand the outer universe further we will have to look inside ourselves first. "Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?" ~Baha'u'llah

Answer 8

Cars? What? You're not making sense.

The best evidence of the Big Bang is red shift - basically, all other galaxies are moving away from us. Therefore, the Universe is expanded, and so it must have been smaller when it began. We can use the speed of this shift and its acceleration to work out when the Universe began. It's estimated to be about 13 billion years old.

Answer 9

I would ask, is there an alternative explanation for these things we see in the universe? I mean, besides "God made it that way?". The "Lamda-CDM" model explains these with only a very few assumptions about the structure of the early universe. The God theory has to make a separate assumption about every single observation. I prefer a theory with 8 assumptions over a theory with billions of assumptions.

+ cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)
+ anisotropy of the CMBR on large scales
+ anisotropy of the CMBR on small scales (acoustic wave anisotropies)
+ polarization of the CMBR
+ galaxy redshifts
+ helium / hydrogen ratio
+ deuterium / hydrogen ratio
+ photon / baryon ratio
+ net electric charge of universe = 0
+ size of galaxy superclusters

Answer 10

I don't see how your example has anything to do with the Big Bang. It is so far from being a valid example, this has to be a joke.

There is lots of observable evidence for the Big Bang. For example the expansion of space, cosmic background radiation, galactic distribution and galactic evolution.