Can you help me understand the Big Bang better?

Question

I am an atheist, and I want to better understand the Big Bang. I read earlier something about a quantum singularity...? Please, don't make it TOO complex. :) Thank you

Answer 1

its a bullshit theory

how do they think the atoms got there?

GOD DUH!

retards, scientest kill me

Answer 2

I doubt the answers you would get here would be satisfying, since the whole topic is not that easy to understand. You definitely need to understand some basics about time and space.  I suggest you read Hawking's book, "a brief history of time". He tries to clarify it in a simple way, and is fairly succesful at it.

Answer 3

A singularity is a point, it has no area. This can be confusing, just accept it for it is. This point consisted of nothing but energy, energy had has no mass, so it does not require space. The life time of this point was very short, -10X35 of one second. Then it began to expand for 600000 years, it cooled to the point where sub-atomic particles condensed from the cloud of energy. From there the universe evolved into what it is today.

Answer 4

The Big Bang theory says that the entire Universe was formed as a result of the explosion of some primordial 'egg'. It didn't and won't exist always - it had a birth, and will have a death.

The Big Bang is the generally accepted view on the origin of the Universe, as there is lots of experimental evidence to confirm it, such as:

- the expansion of the Universe (showing the matter originates from the same location)

- cosmic background radiation (showing the Universe used to be very hot and dense)

- abundance of certain elements and lack of others (showing an initial behavior of the newborn Universe)

- solutions for certain equations of general relativity

If you are interested in the Big Bang, pick up some 'popular science' books, like Barrow: Origin of the Universe, Hawking: A Brief History of Time etc.