Can someone explain to me briefly about the Big Bang?

Question

Theres been much argument between religion and science about the formation of earth. I just want to find out how does something form without it first being made. I know that it says that something collided. But where did that something come from..if there was no matter in the begining of time.. just like it says in the Bible. Do scientists really belive that our earth was made by some collision.. and so much life began to thrive from some tiny speck..and in addition to that, our planet is the only one that has life.. I mean i am sorry, but that trully is sad..

Answer 1

Amen Brother.Science can't outthink GOD.

Answer 2

There are several different misconceptions here.



First, the Big Bang was how the whole universe got started. What, if anything, was before that is a big question. It is quite possible that time itself began at the Big Bang (that's what the simplest equations about it say) and that there simple wasn't a 'Before the Big Bang'. It's somewhat like asking what is north of the north pole.



Next, the earth didn't form directly out of the Big Bang. The Big Bang was about 13.7 billion years ago and the earth didn't form until about 5 billion years ago. In the mean time, the elements that the earth (and sun, and other planets) are madeout of were formed by fusion reactions inside of stars. Our solar system, including the sun and other planets, was formed froma huge cloud of gas and dust that pulled together because of gravity. In the collapse, collisions occurred between the pieces of dust and rock and the planets gradually built up. It wasn't just one collision, although towards the end of the process, there were some very large collisions to reach the final forms of the planets.



As for life, we know that it existed on earth by about 3.8 billion years ago (which was just barely enough time for the earth to cool enough), but that was mostly bacterial life. Multi-cellualr life (like plants and animals) didn't show up until about 570 million years ago. In the gand scheme of things, it is a very recent phenomenon.



Finally, we just don't know if there is life anywhere else. We are just starting to really explore our own solar system. We only found planets orbiting other stars in the last decade or so. Given how fast bacterial life happened on earth, many people would bet that life of that type is quite common in the universe. But we simply don't know that for a fact.

Answer 3

The Big Bang theory has nothing to do with a collision.



In 1929, Edwin Hubble (the guy they named the Space Telescope after) observed that the bodies in the universe were rapidly moving away from each other and he considered that, at some point, the universe was infinitesimally small and dense. Hawking suggested that this would imply that there may not have been a "beginning" as we might expect, because under these conditions, time would literally "stand still".



Yet, at some point, this infinitesimal universe let go. Thus occurred the "Big Bang" event.



If you view this concept in the terms presented, the argument for or against a supreme being seem equally relevant as--without time constraints--the universe, itself, seems to have no beginning, and yet it has a beginning from our viewpoint.



Humanity is still trying to understand the universe around it. I believe we are just not advanced enough yet to grasp what is really going on here.



Believe what you will--at least you have something.

Answer 4

No one can "briefly" explain about the Big Bang theory - not even Stephen Hawking.



BTW, people, it's so ignorant-of-science and senseless to say something is "JUST a theory" - that's like saying Michael Jordan was JUST another basketball player. To call an idea a "theory" is to elevate it to the highest possible honor.

The Big Bang is a theory (so is Plate Tectonics, Gravity, Evolution, Atomic theory, Relativity, Quantum theory, String theory, etc.).



The crux of the apparent differences between science and religion is that, deep within the origins of religious thought, one of it's purposes was to assign an explanation to some unexplained natural phenomenon. But when the logical methods of science were developed, they became a superior set of methods for acquiring information about the real/natural world around us. In this modern world, we have no NEED for religious or supernatural ideas to explain how nature works.



Now, that doesn't mean that there is no role for religious beliefs anymore - they can serve a good purpose when it comes to ethics and the human need to feel good about death and mortality.



But religious fundamentalists need to let go of this ancient idea that we need supernatural deities to explain the universe.



I'm not saying that science can explain everything, yet - but that is no reason to give up on science. In fact, if you look at the history of scientific progress and extrapolate that progress into the future, the folly of resorting to the "god of the gaps" argument should become perfectly clear.

Answer 5

Science has no real answer about what created the Big Bang.



There is nothing in science that disproves the existence of a higher power that created Man, one who watches over us today.



Science just says, if they exist, they started the process with a Bang 13 billion years ago, and used evolution as a tool.



Claims that the Earth was made 6,000 years ago are nonsense. But, except for things like that, there is no real problem in having faith and believing in modern science. Here's a good website from a scientist who also has faith.



http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 6

Ok, there is a thing called antimatter, which can create and destroy matter. If two particles (and I mean particles that cannot be seen by the naked eye) are accelerated to a very high speed and they collide, they will create "antimatter". So what happened is the oppisite. Antimatter collided and created matter, and it just kept colliding and ultimately produced an explosion. All of the matter in the world was created by antimatter. So if antimatter was created again, it could destroy all of the universe, because if antimatter cancels out matter, you get "nothing" though no one really knows what nothing is. This is just one theory. I am religious as well, but I have a hard time believing things without proof. I have accepted to believe in God, but if there is something scientific that says something otherwise I am more likely to believe that. And who says that we're the only planet with life. There probably are more, they just haven't been discovered yet...

Answer 7

The thing with SCIENCE and RELIGION is was is ACCIDENTAL and AUTOMATED with NO ACTIVE INTELLEGENT PARTICIPATION or did someone named GOD push a button and make it happen.



Science view (not necessiarly real, but we have no alternatives)



The MASS of the Universe is CONSTANT



All the STARS, GALAXIES, PLANETS and FREE HYDGROGEN has always been there and always will be there in ONE FORM OR ANOTHER (sounds a bit religious to me, something ETERNAL)



It all clumps together (the BIG CRUNCH theory) and forms a SINGULARITY



That's a HUGE ROCK made out of ALL the MASS, all the STARS, all the PLANETS, all the GALAXIES



This huge rock FALLS IN UPON ITSELF creating a HUGE gravity well



Eventually the atomic elements that make up this SINGULARITY start to FUSE and become DIFFERENT and as a result of FUSION give off HEAT, GAMMA RAYS, XRAYS, LIGHT and eventually it goes critical and



What happens when MASS or MATTER is heated.



It expands



If you get a FUSION reaction it expands quickly and you get a BIG BANG



And all the constituent atoms of this SINGULARITY are thrown out into space to form the universe in a variety of forms.



FREE electrons, protons, neutrons, positrons, maybe some chuncks of the singualrity which become what we call "black holes" and as this heated plasma cools Hydrogen forms from natural bonding, then comes helium and then clumps of this stuff become STARS.



Eventually all the solid and gasioius and hot plasmic masses of the unverse are formed



Stars, planets, asteroids, meteros, comets, galaxies, luminosity or nebulocity



They go out into space varying from the speed of light for Gamma and X rays to much slower for older stars and planets like the Earth.



The question is



Did an intellegent being named GOD make this happen or does it just happen on its own through a mindelss perpetutual motion device (take note, the US Patent office will NOT issue a patent on a PERPETUAL motion device).



That is the issue.



The Postulate was put forth by a Catholic Priest who was a Physicists and his math was SIMULTANIOUSLY also published by two other people working in different areas around the same time.



That is PROOF #1



Three PEOPLE simultaniously came up with the same MATH to describe the event.



It was based on the work of Planck and Einstein and others.



Next came Hubbles Discovery of Red Shift or stars and galaxies MOVING AWAY.



That is Proof #2



Then in the 1960's Bell Labs found the Cosmic Ray signature that the Catholic Priest said would be present, that Einstein embraces as the best concept for creation he ever heard.



Bell labs found a 3.6 degree Kelvin background noise EVERYWHERE, which would be the COSMIC GAMMA RAY SIGNATURE of the FIRST PARTICLES OUT in the BIG BANG



The EDGE of the Universe. Predicted by the Catholic Priest and PROVED by Bell Labs in 1960.



This lead the SCIENTIFIC community to favor the BIG BANG or EXPANDED universe theory over the STEADY STATE theory.



This turned BIG BANG from a HYPOTHESIS to a THEORY.



That is your lession in Big Bang



The Religious vs Atheist debate is if SOMEONE or SOMETHING made it happen (God) or it JUST happens by regualarity or accident (Randomistic).



Einstein, on this topic, once said



"God doesn't play dice."



Hawking on this topic rebuts



"God DOES play dice!"



Religion as a whole (Catholics, Jews, etc.) accepts Big Bang and Darwinism, but DOES NOT accept RANDOMISM as the influence behind it all.



Religion accepts an INTELLEGENCE behind it, called, for the lack of a better word, GOD.



Atheist science says it is TOTALLY RANDOM and a matter of SERENDIPITY.



THAT, is the area of dispute.



So one, you, has to decide ACCIDENTAL RANDOMISM or WILLFUL INTENT.



Intellgent DESIGN or IT JUST HAPPENS.



I do remind you, seedless water mellons don't NATURALLY grow on vines and neither do IPODS, MICROWAVE OVENS or TV SETS.



The BEST benefits of LIFE come from INTELLEGENT DESIGN.



Otherwise you'd live in a cave or a hole in the ground.



The FINAL EGO TRIP IS



Do YOU think MAN is the ULTIMATE creator OR is there someone or something GREATER than man out there in the universe.

Answer 8

Look, no one knows what happened in the beginning. The scientists are only speculating. The Big Bang is only a theory. I personally cannot believe that Earth is the only planet with life. That too is only a guess. Life may not be humanoid somewhere else. It may be plants or microbes or even animals. You see how many stars there are at night. They are only in our galaxy. There are zillions of galaxies. Each galaxy has millions of stars, each star has several planets. Our universe is huge and who knows if we are the only universe.

Answer 9

Check out "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. It is a great summary of the greatest scientific facts, all compiled into a book short enough to still enjoy. Plus, he provides some entertaining commentary, to tie it all together.

To the rest of your question, science has proven what you will hear in this book. It is not about spirituality or faith in God doing anything that science has already provided facts for. The uncited Hebrews that supposedly conconted the bible have yet to see their papers substantiated. No offense...but I'm a factual kind of guy. When god himself comes to explain things, I'll give up my reliance on all scientifically proven facts.

Answer 10

Yeah, it is the single dumbest theory about how the world began, right in front of evolution.