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originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
The Big Bang theory never made sense to me...
originally posted by: OrionHunterX
Scientists say that the observable universe is about 93 billion light years across. If that be the case how is it that the so called big bang occured only 13.2 billion years ago?
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
No I do not. What banged? And more importantly, where did it bang? You can't get something from nothing.
It sounds to me like he's discarding an idea of a singularity that was discarded by the mainstream community 40 years or so ago:
originally posted by: OrionHunterX
"His main beef, according to Agence France-Presse, is that there’s no good way to test whether such a thing actually happened — cosmologists have evidence of a rapid outward expansion, but not anything as discrete as a singular point that detonated to create everything in the universe."
..."a singularity,"...
But this picture isn't just wrong, it's nearly 40 years out of date! We are absolutely certain there was no singularity associated with the hot Big Bang, and there may not have even been a birth to space and time at all. Here's what we know and how we know it...
Every time you see a diagram, an article, or a story talking about the "big bang singularity" or any sort of big bang/singularity existing before inflation, know that you're dealing with an outdated method of thinking. The idea of a Big Bang singularity went out the window as soon as we realized we had a different state — that of cosmic inflation — preceding and setting up the early, hot-and-dense state of the Big Bang.
In spite of the fact evidence does not favor your idea?
As for me I'll hang on to the more 'logical' Steady State theory where the universe always existed in time expanding and contracting in space and time. We mortals can only think in 3 dimensions maybe 4 if one takes time into account.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: ColonelSF
a reply to: OrionHunterX
This huge huge universe came into existence from a single point smaller than the tip of a needle - a singularity?? Does one really believe this? If so, shouldn't all matter be entangled? Could the Bang have occurred even though time did not exist?
No I do not. What banged? And more importantly, where did it bang? You can't get something from nothing.
I banged a hottie last night, I got more than something out of that.
Nobel-winning Scientist: I Have No Idea If The Big Bang Happened!
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