I know what it is, and know what caused it to happen. But please recap this for me, i don't really know how the whole theory works, so can somebody explain to me how it happened and how the universe is how it is now?
Thanks. I also know that the universe was really hot after the Big Bang. But please just recap this for me, 10 easy points.
Thanks. I also know that the universe was really hot after the Big Bang. But please just recap this for me, 10 easy points.
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Sheesh... I'll try to give you a better answer than the previous posts...
Like many theory's the big bang all started with Einstein. While Einstein was working out the mathematics of Relativity he came across some equations that suggested the universe was expanding. Einstein was a genius but was also notoriously stubborn. He believed the universe to be static so since the equations involving expansion didn't effect his other ideas of relativity he simply skimmed past these equations and summed it up as a mathematical hiccup. Two men proposed the idea of the Big Bang, one being a Catholic Priest. Einstein refused to accept the new idea. In comes Edwin Hubble. Hubble realized the spectrum of light should fall prey to the Doppler Effect. A Blue Spectrum means a celestial object is moving closer to us and a Red Spectrum means a celestial object is moving away. Hubble found that almost all observable celestial objects had red spectrum, thus all objects were moving away from Earth. This was all the evidence needed to solidify The Big Bang theory and even Einstein would later admit his stubbornness was his "biggest blunder" The idea of everything in the Universe originating from one point has worked perfectly with all the theory's of astrophysics. We will make a long story short and say that Physics suggested that the Universe originally expanded far faster than the speed of light. In comes our study of microwaves. The cosmos is littered with microwaves caused by The Big Bang. Some of the static you see on a TV screen or AM radio are these microwaves. In short, by studying the microwaves we have learned much. It took some time for the Big Bangs energy to cool down and form particles and these particles took time to coalesce into stars and galaxies. This left over energy also causes space to have a temperature. This presented a huge problem. The temperature of space is almost completely even throughout. If The Big Bang expanded faster than the speed of light then how could it's energy evenly dissipate heat throughout the Universe. Heat travels much slower than the speed of light so this would be impossible. This answer would be solved by a negative field. A negative field is a field with completely uniform energy. When this occurs an "anti-gravity" effect occurs and everything is repelled away from each other. This model worked perfectly. The Big Bang originally expanded the Universe slower than the speed of light, it is currently thought this period was only a small fraction of a second. This was just enough time for heat to evenly dissipate. The energy then became uniform creating a negative field. So great was the energy that the negative field expanded the universe far faster than the speed of light in the blink of an eye. This is a very brief summary and really leaves a lot out. I encourage you to read more on this subject. Some think our universe originated from a very small region of a vast area of energy. When a negative field activates somewhere in this energy a new universe is born. Think of swiss cheese. The energy is the cheese and the universes are the bubbles in the cheese, thus we call this idea "The Bubbleverse Theory" A newer theory that involves M-Theory is called the "Big Splat". In this theory two universes gravitational attract each other. Eventually they collide and bounce off each other. This collision causes everything to be annihilated and turned into dense hot energy. In M-theory the energy would cause the "Membrane" of our Universe to expand. The Big Splat has little to back it up. But who knows?
Like many theory's the big bang all started with Einstein. While Einstein was working out the mathematics of Relativity he came across some equations that suggested the universe was expanding. Einstein was a genius but was also notoriously stubborn. He believed the universe to be static so since the equations involving expansion didn't effect his other ideas of relativity he simply skimmed past these equations and summed it up as a mathematical hiccup. Two men proposed the idea of the Big Bang, one being a Catholic Priest. Einstein refused to accept the new idea. In comes Edwin Hubble. Hubble realized the spectrum of light should fall prey to the Doppler Effect. A Blue Spectrum means a celestial object is moving closer to us and a Red Spectrum means a celestial object is moving away. Hubble found that almost all observable celestial objects had red spectrum, thus all objects were moving away from Earth. This was all the evidence needed to solidify The Big Bang theory and even Einstein would later admit his stubbornness was his "biggest blunder" The idea of everything in the Universe originating from one point has worked perfectly with all the theory's of astrophysics. We will make a long story short and say that Physics suggested that the Universe originally expanded far faster than the speed of light. In comes our study of microwaves. The cosmos is littered with microwaves caused by The Big Bang. Some of the static you see on a TV screen or AM radio are these microwaves. In short, by studying the microwaves we have learned much. It took some time for the Big Bangs energy to cool down and form particles and these particles took time to coalesce into stars and galaxies. This left over energy also causes space to have a temperature. This presented a huge problem. The temperature of space is almost completely even throughout. If The Big Bang expanded faster than the speed of light then how could it's energy evenly dissipate heat throughout the Universe. Heat travels much slower than the speed of light so this would be impossible. This answer would be solved by a negative field. A negative field is a field with completely uniform energy. When this occurs an "anti-gravity" effect occurs and everything is repelled away from each other. This model worked perfectly. The Big Bang originally expanded the Universe slower than the speed of light, it is currently thought this period was only a small fraction of a second. This was just enough time for heat to evenly dissipate. The energy then became uniform creating a negative field. So great was the energy that the negative field expanded the universe far faster than the speed of light in the blink of an eye. This is a very brief summary and really leaves a lot out. I encourage you to read more on this subject. Some think our universe originated from a very small region of a vast area of energy. When a negative field activates somewhere in this energy a new universe is born. Think of swiss cheese. The energy is the cheese and the universes are the bubbles in the cheese, thus we call this idea "The Bubbleverse Theory" A newer theory that involves M-Theory is called the "Big Splat". In this theory two universes gravitational attract each other. Eventually they collide and bounce off each other. This collision causes everything to be annihilated and turned into dense hot energy. In M-theory the energy would cause the "Membrane" of our Universe to expand. The Big Splat has little to back it up. But who knows?