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What caused the big bang?


The first holly particle collided with some other particle
  7% (2)
Some higher being had a thought
  7% (2)
Universe A collided with Universe B and we in Universe C were created
  14% (4)
Our universe completed a cycle of expansion and contraction went BANG
  17% (5)
Our universe is the figment of someone's imagination and is not real
  14% (4)
Our Universe exists in some containment feild in an MIB Lab
  7% (2)
Our universe is a failed high school science project
  3% (1)
We are a failed cooking project of some Holly in another dimension
  3% (1)
A bunch of Omnipotent BDSM'rs had a massive gangbang
  10% (3)
Stop looking, someone will take the answer and make a bigger bomb
  14% (4)


Total Votes : 28
(last vote on : 5/21/2009 5:18:33 AM)
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hejira92 -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/8/2009 5:01:36 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Cuffkinks

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ORIGINAL: hejira92

As Hubble's Law states, the universe is expanding at constantly greater speed. Or, more specifically, objects in the universe are moving away from each other in proportion to how far apart they are. We know this is true due to the spectral redshift in the light we see given off by distant stars (Doppler effect).

The big bang theory arises by tracing all this expansion back to an origin. But many astrophysicists propose a "rubber band" theory; the universe can only expand so far before the pull of it's own gravity will have it collapse upon itself in a "big crunch" and then begin again.

But that won't happen for billions of years after our own sun dies (and that won't begin to happen for another 4.5 billion years. Our sun is middle aged).

Studying the size and scope of this stuff makes my head hurt and makes me feel very insignificant.




My girl! (He said proudly.)


Thank you, Sir

And when I saw you had written in this thread, I was so sure you would be talking about cookies, or maybe trucks...





thornhappy -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/8/2009 5:27:54 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Phoenixpower

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

i always thought the big bang was a night of really good sex...........


yep, kind of when the bed falls apart at the hotel [8|]

Not speaking of experience, are ya?

I vote for the cabbage/beans/brussel sprouts/lactose intolerant theory.




MainFragger -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/8/2009 9:28:46 PM)

Some scientists think its not so much contracting and expanding again and again, as again and then the first time..again. Apparently, some scietists hypothesize that when the contracting occurs, it is so powerful, it actuall warps space time..and the next expansion actually ends up happening BEFORE the previous one did in time...therefor erasing the existance of space and events in this timeframe, and replacing it with new space and events in an expanded and new timeline.

Brian

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ORIGINAL: hejira92

As Hubble's Law states, the universe is expanding at constantly greater speed. Or, more specifically, objects in the universe are moving away from each other in proportion to how far apart they are. We know this is true due to the spectral redshift in the light we see given off by distant stars (Doppler effect).

The big bang theory arises by tracing all this expansion back to an origin. But many astrophysicists propose a "rubber band" theory; the universe can only expand so far before the pull of it's own gravity will have it collapse upon itself in a "big crunch" and then begin again.

But that won't happen for billions of years after our own sun dies (and that won't begin to happen for another 4.5 billion years. Our sun is middle aged).

Studying the size and scope of this stuff makes my head hurt and makes me feel very insignificant.







NYLass -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/8/2009 9:40:16 PM)

My nephew & his new drum set.   [sm=gaah.gif]




BossyShoeBitch -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/8/2009 9:48:43 PM)

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Alright, the big brain dudes at all the colleges and universities STILL cant agree on what started the big bang and the creation of the universe.

I submit we should take a poll and which ever choice has the most points is the correct one.

This is purely a non-scientific and not totally impartial



I disagree.  In 1963, Arno Penzias,  winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics, discovered the existence of radio signals which were proved to be remnants of the hot Big Bang.
The scientific community is in agreement on this one:  http://www.bell-labs.com/project/feature/archives/cosmology/




jlf1961 -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/8/2009 10:29:31 PM)

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ORIGINAL: BossyShoeBitch


I disagree.  In 1963, Arno Penzias,  winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics, discovered the existence of radio signals which were proved to be remnants of the hot Big Bang.
The scientific community is in agreement on this one:  http://www.bell-labs.com/project/feature/archives/cosmology/



Actually, that details the discovery of background noise that proved the big bang, but not the cause of the big bang.

Since there had to be a point prior to the big bang that initiated the process.




sirsholly -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/9/2009 3:37:34 AM)

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Alright, the big brain dudes at all the colleges and universities STILL cant agree on what started the big bang and the creation of the universe.

the big brain dudes need to ask a mom.

the Big Bang theory was caused by a two year old. Any two year old on any given day.[8|]




BossyShoeBitch -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/9/2009 3:42:36 AM)

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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ORIGINAL: BossyShoeBitch


I disagree.  In 1963, Arno Penzias,  winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics, discovered the existence of radio signals which were proved to be remnants of the hot Big Bang.
The scientific community is in agreement on this one:  http://www.bell-labs.com/project/feature/archives/cosmology/



Actually, that details the discovery of background noise that proved the big bang, but not the cause of the big bang.

Since there had to be a point prior to the big bang that initiated the process.



I stand corrected...




hejira92 -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/9/2009 8:39:25 AM)

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ORIGINAL: MainFragger

Some scientists think its not so much contracting and expanding again and again, as again and then the first time..again. Apparently, some scietists hypothesize that when the contracting occurs, it is so powerful, it actuall warps space time..and the next expansion actually ends up happening BEFORE the previous one did in time...therefor erasing the existance of space and events in this timeframe, and replacing it with new space and events in an expanded and new timeline.

Brian

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ORIGINAL: hejira92

As Hubble's Law states, the universe is expanding at constantly greater speed. Or, more specifically, objects in the universe are moving away from each other in proportion to how far apart they are. We know this is true due to the spectral redshift in the light we see given off by distant stars (Doppler effect).

The big bang theory arises by tracing all this expansion back to an origin. But many astrophysicists propose a "rubber band" theory; the universe can only expand so far before the pull of it's own gravity will have it collapse upon itself in a "big crunch" and then begin again.

But that won't happen for billions of years after our own sun dies (and that won't begin to happen for another 4.5 billion years. Our sun is middle aged).

Studying the size and scope of this stuff makes my head hurt and makes me feel very insignificant.






Ooh! I just love a rift in the space-time continuum! Where's Warf when you need him?

(I can only keep my scientist hat on for so long in the P&RS before it falls and I slip back into cutsie sub-girl. Besides, it's the weekend- I left my white coat at work)




MadAxeman -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/9/2009 9:13:22 AM)

I have the padded white jacket with the buckles at the back...




Raechard -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/9/2009 9:32:33 AM)

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ORIGINAL: MainFragger
However, I think once we knew how big that center actually is, we'd be able to extrapolate the true size of the universe. I look at it this way, if you had a circle with 360 degree lines intersecting at the center, it forms an imaginary dot at the center. This metallic center would be that same dot, but real. There has to be a relationship between the size of the intersection and the size of the circle. So if you know the size of the intersection, you should be able to estimate the size of the circle. Therefore, if you know the sizd of the center of the universe, you should be able to figure out the size of the completed expansion of the universe... Which is the full size the universe will be after it stops expanding and before is starts to contract again.

All this proves is a complete lack of geometrical knowledge on your part. A circle has a centre point if lines are crossing through that centre point the radius of the circle would have no bearing on that centre point size. The point at the centre of the circle visually increases the more times you intersect it i.e. why are you only intersecting it with 360 lines why not a billion then you'd have a completely filled in circle depending on how thin your pencil line is to your circle diameter.
 
The other flaw in your assumption is that the current centre of the universe coincides with the centre point from which it expanded. If something explodes does it explode evenly or does matter go in chaotically decided directions with differing forces based on the initial resistance to the explosion? Something would have to be divinely spherical in construction in the first place to offer exactly the same resistance to force over its entire surface area. If so, you have to consider that such a uniform pattern of expansion would offer many reflections that would still be present today as we gaze upon the stars i.e. repetitive patterns in star formations. People say quantum singularities and other forces would have spoiled these patterns long ago but why? If everything is expanding in this uniform way then the exact same sequence of events is happening with regards to the life and death of stars on both sides of the universe; mirrored perfectly to the most finite point in time. 
 
Perhaps it's a problem of scale and the little we see of it. There is seemingly slightly less gravity in the universe than actual mass. The more mass, the greater the gravitational pull but all the gravitational pull in one place for this super dense particle wasn’t enough to keep it from bursting apart. Yet it is seemingly enough to draw it all back together, there is an explanation for this in terms of the creation of new particles, I’m told and the fact the mass of particles can change according to the fields that influence them.




MainFragger -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/9/2009 9:12:34 PM)

360 comes from 360 degrees. Whatever the size of the center is determines your start point for scale. Forget the ACTUAL numbers for a moment. If the circle was 1 mile in circumfrence, then you can use that to determine over all scale. Then you just apply that scale to the real numbers. The way you determine the thickness of the imaginary lines is by assuming that the lines are the thinnest possible lines whose points fit together perfectly to form the circle at the center. Once you know the size of the center, you divide that by 360, and you have the size of the point of the convergence of two degree edges. Now, you can add two equally split straights radiating out from that point at 1 degree, and determine how thick they will be using mathematics I admit are beyond me, but tie in with the relationship between angles and lines within a circle. If we assume everything is its most basic form, then once we know the minimum thickness at 1 or 100 or 1000 miles that those lines could be, then we can work out a formula to determine the largest the universe could possibly be based off of that thickness of line.

Thats becuase people make the mistake of thinking of gravity as a force. It isn't a force. Its a warping of existing space. Think of it as a dimple in existance. Its curve causes anything within its event horizon to naturally slide or roll toward the center. There are other conditions that can slow down that process.. But anything in a gravity well will eventually fall to the center. So no matter how large or powerful the Big Bang is.. if it never reaches beyond the event horizon of the edge of the warp in the universe, then eventually its only natural that it will spiral or slide back to the center again..

Brian E.



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ORIGINAL: Raechard

quote:

ORIGINAL: MainFragger
However, I think once we knew how big that center actually is, we'd be able to extrapolate the true size of the universe. I look at it this way, if you had a circle with 360 degree lines intersecting at the center, it forms an imaginary dot at the center. This metallic center would be that same dot, but real. There has to be a relationship between the size of the intersection and the size of the circle. So if you know the size of the intersection, you should be able to estimate the size of the circle. Therefore, if you know the sizd of the center of the universe, you should be able to figure out the size of the completed expansion of the universe... Which is the full size the universe will be after it stops expanding and before is starts to contract again.

All this proves is a complete lack of geometrical knowledge on your part. A circle has a centre point if lines are crossing through that centre point the radius of the circle would have no bearing on that centre point size. The point at the centre of the circle visually increases the more times you intersect it i.e. why are you only intersecting it with 360 lines why not a billion then you'd have a completely filled in circle depending on how thin your pencil line is to your circle diameter.
 
The other flaw in your assumption is that the current centre of the universe coincides with the centre point from which it expanded. If something explodes does it explode evenly or does matter go in chaotically decided directions with differing forces based on the initial resistance to the explosion? Something would have to be divinely spherical in construction in the first place to offer exactly the same resistance to force over its entire surface area. If so, you have to consider that such a uniform pattern of expansion would offer many reflections that would still be present today as we gaze upon the stars i.e. repetitive patterns in star formations. People say quantum singularities and other forces would have spoiled these patterns long ago but why? If everything is expanding in this uniform way then the exact same sequence of events is happening with regards to the life and death of stars on both sides of the universe; mirrored perfectly to the most finite point in time. 
 
Perhaps it's a problem of scale and the little we see of it. There is seemingly slightly less gravity in the universe than actual mass. The more mass, the greater the gravitational pull but all the gravitational pull in one place for this super dense particle wasn’t enough to keep it from bursting apart. Yet it is seemingly enough to draw it all back together, there is an explanation for this in terms of the creation of new particles, I’m told and the fact the mass of particles can change according to the fields that influence them.





Raechard -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/10/2009 1:08:21 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MainFragger
360 comes from 360 degrees.


If you were French you'd be dividing it up into 400 degrees then (100 for each quadrant)?, 360 is an imperial number based on the fact that people used to think there was 360 days in the year (probably). 90 Degrees per quadrant what an odd number?
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Whatever the size of the center is determines your start point for scale. Forget the ACTUAL numbers for a moment. If the circle was 1 mile in circumfrence, then you can use that to determine over all scale.

So the internal circle is 1 mile ok.
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 Then you just apply that scale to the real numbers. The way you determine the thickness of the imaginary lines is by assuming that the lines are the thinnest possible lines whose points fit together perfectly to form the circle at the center.

OK The lines are 0 thickness and so they cross at the centre to form a point of 0 length. So the internal circle is 0 in size i.e. a point. Although you'll never be able to draw this or visually see it trust me when I say that the intersection of any number of lines of 0 thickness will form a point of zero length.
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 Once you know the size of the center, you divide that by 360, and you have the size of the point of the convergence of two degree edges.

= 0
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Now, you can add two equally split straights radiating out from that point at 1 degree, and determine how thick they will be using mathematics I admit are beyond me, but tie in with the relationship between angles and lines within a circle

All this complex explanation is really confusing me shall we try a more simple question?
Can you tell me the diameter of a tyre by drawing clever patterns of lines on the hub cap? No. The dimension you are missing is the dimension you need. No matter how complex the maths it comes down to the simple fact to solve x number of unknowns you need x number of equations.
 
If you have the circumference of a circle you can find the radius and the other way around.
 
Circumference = 2 x Pi x Radius
Pi = Circumference/Diameter ( approx 3.14)
 
3 unknowns and 2 equations i.e. we need to know either the Circumference or the Radius as well as the value of Pi. We know from practice that there is a constant relationship between the Diameter of any Circle and its Circumference thus we have an equation for this and can solve 1 unknown leaving 1 unknown to be found from the other but not if we say both radius and circumference are unknowns.
 
The thing you are trying to find is the dimension that is missing in the first place i.e. the radius to the external circle

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That’s because people make the mistake of thinking of gravity as a force.


Silly people
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It isn't a force. It’s a warping of existing space. Think of it as a dimple in existance. Its curve causes anything within its event horizon to naturally slide or roll toward the center.

I'm aware of this visualisation but it's only an analogy though to explain complex mathematics. The bigger the mass the bigger the depression, the larger the pull/force how does this change anything?
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There are other conditions that can slow down that process.. But anything in a gravity well will eventually fall to the center. So no matter how large or powerful the Big Bang is.. if it never reaches beyond the event horizon of the edge of the warp in the universe, then eventually its only natural that it will spiral or slide back to the center again..

Objects in space cause these depressions, they don't already exist. Gravity is caused by mass you can't have gravity without mass of some kind, can you? Quantum singularities come about after the death of a star they don't exist prior to the expansion of the universe. You can compact something into a smaller and smaller space but it's only going to contain as much matter as existed in the first place in that region of space, plus any more that gets pulled in and compacted? If matter is spread out over the entire space or concentrated in a tiny pinprick the overall sum of gravity will be the same; all that quantum singularities do is concentrate the amount locally due to the denseness of the mass in that locality. Sure space will be curved (in your analogy) due to perhaps more mass being near the centre; that mass that didn't have the same initial amount of acceleration after the event. My initial point was the explosive force had to be far in excess of the total gravity due to all the mass being in one place or the universe wouldn't have expanded at such a rate.





jlf1961 -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/10/2009 2:03:26 PM)

I still believe the big bang is a 'Holly' particle impacting a 'Non-Holly' particle.




MainFragger -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/11/2009 7:47:48 PM)

I admit, I don't exactly remember where I heard this, but I could have sworn that I read that some scientists have discovered that in actuality, the gravity well DOES exist before the matter that is there. But once the matter reaches a substantial mass, it does widen/intensify the gravity well..




Raechard -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/12/2009 5:33:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

I still believe the big bang is a 'Holly' particle impacting a 'Non-Holly' particle.

What created the Holy particle and the non holy particle?
I’m voting Sony




MainFragger -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/15/2009 10:48:04 PM)

If thats the case, you can see the end result of the universe on the Sony XBR8 and a Sony Blu-Ray player.

Brian/MainFragger
Ex-Sony HDTV front end manager..

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ORIGINAL: Raechard

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

I still believe the big bang is a 'Holly' particle impacting a 'Non-Holly' particle.

What created the Holy particle and the non holy particle?
I’m voting Sony






GreedyTop -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/15/2009 10:56:42 PM)

*eyes glazed over from math talk*




darklight17 -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/15/2009 11:05:49 PM)

The answer is simple. A bunch of Jesits (pronounced like cheeze-its) collided with a super heated wheel of cheese, and bang. Okay, well, at least that is what the protesters at the abortion clinic said. I thought it was a bit absurd.




BossyShoeBitch -> RE: What caused the big bang? (5/15/2009 11:07:35 PM)

Look at all this math!   I thought for sure I would see RedMagic in this thread...




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