Myths About the Big Bang
T he Big Bang theory tries to explain what happened at very beginning of our universe. It is one the most fundamental concept of modern science but unfortunately, also one the most widely misunderstood one. 1. The Big Bang was an explosion: there was no "explosion", but instead an "expansion" (and universe is still expanding). Example: reather than imagine a balloon expanding. So the matter isn't flying outwards from an explosion, the matter is actually standing still while space itself expands dragging the matter with it. 2. The Big Bang has a Centre: no point is special in the whole universe and all points are equivalent. and there is no special direction in the universe 3. The Big Bang theory can't explain what came before it: that's true because, the limitation of current model of big bang theory is that it can predicte precisely what happened after big bang bit no idea before big bang. Our current ...