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The Big Bang was not an explosion in the conventional sense. When a bomb explodes, even a nuclear bomb, the energy created causes the atoms in the explosive to
by svachalek 6y ago
The Big Bang was not an explosion in the conventional sense. When a bomb explodes, even a nuclear bomb, the energy created causes the atoms in the explosive to move violently in all directions. But in the Big Bang, instead suddenly all of those particles got farther apart without necessarily moving. The only real parallel in our current universe is the way the space between galaxies is expanding; nothing on our planet or even within our galaxy (afaik) behaves this way.
- mentos 6y agoOk thank you, so I guess 'big bang' is the wrong imagery. Really its someone stretching the taffy out that all mass sits on, a 'great expansion'. However and wherever mass came from, the idea that mass exists at all is unfathomable. My only way of rationalizing it is that in some higher dimension things 'just exist' and its only because we perceive things in our three dimensions that we believe there must be a start and end to things.