The Big Bang Theory

For centuries humans have sat outside and looked into the night sky and wondered why or how. It’s been on the minds of simpletons, philosophers and scientists alike since the beginning of time, and yet no one really has a definite answer. However, all this discussion and debate has lead to some interesting discoveries, and those theories that have stood the test of time have included both scientific and religious perspectives. One of the most famous and widely accepted of these theories is the Big Bang theory, yet even through its acceptance, it is also somewhat misunderstood. One on these misconceptions is that it explains the universes origin, a statement that is not quite true. The Big Bang Theory is an attempt in explaining how the universe has been developed, not what initiated such a creation. (Strickland, 2008)

The basics of the theory can be explained with reasonable simplicity, in that essentially, all of the current and past substance in the universe came into existence at the same time. At one point about fifteen billion years ago, all known matter was concentrated into an extremely small ball, that had infinite density and intense heat, known now as a singularity. It is this that began to expand and cause the being of the universe. Like with all theories the specifics of this have developed over time, and there have been many advances from the first proposal made by Belgian priest, Georges Lemaître in the 1920’s which stated that the universe began from a single primordial atom. (Chow, 2011) (Coffey, 2010) (Robbins, 2006)

The early Universe was not bound by the laws of physics as we know them today, and consequently this means scientists cannot predict with great accuracy what the Universe looked like during the ear...

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... that has enough substantial evidence to be the most widely accepted throughout the world. You could sit for years and ponder all there is to know about the universe and it would drive you insane. Through this insanity, though, we have already come so far, and as we live our own lives on Earth we are also living the life of a universe, and as we grow so will our knowledge of its depths.

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