since everthing is expanding from that point? so wouldn't the universe be more like a bubble. with only matter on the outer bubble
2007-12-31 04:28:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The fact that it wasn't a great explosion is why there is no center of the universe. In order for there to be an explosion there must be something for it to explode into. Since ALL of the universe was compacted and then rapidly expanded, but it expanded into nothing is what the Big Bang truly is.
So its not like this location in space existed and then all these stars and galaxy's came rushing towards us, it was everything, including space-time was compacted so tightly together that only fermions existed. Then everything inside of everything got further apart.
Try this. Take a balloon and fill it partly full of air. Randomly place several dots on the surface of the balloon. Then add more air to the balloon and you will see all the dots got farther away from each other but not from a centralized location. The balloon is our universe and the dots are the galaxy's!
2007-12-31 04:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The Big Bang happened everywhere (including right here where the Earth is), and may have been infinite in size at all times after time zero.
2007-12-31 13:23:30 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know how it happened, on why. We can't, because just like in black holes, the laws of physics break down at that point. We can only describe the universe after it had completed one Planck Time.
It may be a bubble, filled with a fourth spatial dimension inside. That is a possibility. We won't know for a long time, though.
2007-12-31 13:11:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly, although something may have formed there like a supermassive black hole, or some kind of undiscovered universal phenomena.
2007-12-31 12:58:27 · answer #4 · answered by Synthuir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since the universe has no center i guess that would count as being empty.
2007-12-31 12:49:17 · answer #5 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are where it happened right now. We are in the point
2007-12-31 12:48:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well no, because when the the big bang happened the whole universe in which we are right now living at was like the size of a subatomic particle , with alot of mass. After the big bang like you said it's been expanding from that point into the thing known as Nothingness (i think it has another name like dark energy but i'm not sure).
Hope that helps you
2007-12-31 12:44:22 · answer #7 · answered by Mandalorian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an expansion of three-dimensional space. The only "bubble" is in time, and our distance from the center of that bubble is 13.8 billion years (at current best estimate).
2007-12-31 12:43:45 · answer #8 · answered by Charlie149 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the thing is, *all* space is where it happened. Every dimensional point we can see (and those we can't) were contained in the small starting point. In effect, the big bang's center is *everywhere*.
2007-12-31 12:41:35 · answer #9 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will run into paradox all over the place if you study early astronomy....
(the word "space" is used NOT to mean outer space, but to mean an "area" below)
The word "empty" means there was a space which didn't have any matter in it. BUT empty mean the space has existed. The theory goes that there was no space before the big bang. It's not an empty space, it is a null space. What was around it, and what was there before are still not agreed upon even in the theoretic side.
Let's say you have a balloon and it is empty. You inject a small amount of gas. You have a very dense gas in the balloon. Now, you blow into it to expand. The density of the gas will be evenly thin inside the balloon. Yes, the latex is only on the outside, but the content will be even.
2007-12-31 12:34:44 · answer #10 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋