Do scientists know the original location of the big bang?

Question

Do scientists know the original location of the big bang?

Answer 1

It's near Texas.

Answer 2

It didn't have one.  Which sounds weird, and is, but according to Einstein, all points are equivalent, and thus no single point can be picked out as special.  Thus, remnants of the big bang can be found in all directions; it is called the cosmic background radiation.

Answer 3

everywhere. space started with the big bang, expanding outward from where it happened. so the point at which the big bang happened is literally everywhere.

Answer 4

There is no original location of the big bang - it happened everywhere.  

Answer 5

Everywhere. The big bang is not an explosion of stuff in a big empty space. It is the creating of new space. Space itself is growing. Space itself started out infinitely small, and now is very large but not infinite. But do not ask where the edge is. Space has no center and no edge, just the the surface of the Earth has a limited number of acres of land and ocean, but no edge you could fall off and noplace you could call the center.

Answer 6

nope

Answer 7

What we're dealing with is a continuum; time, space, and matter all had to come about at the same instance.

Creation scientists know this happened when God spoke everything into existance. Universe - Single spoken sentance.

In the begining = Time

God created the heaven = space

and the earth = matter.

God is a trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

He made a trinity of trinities.  Time, Space, Matter

Time = past, present, future.

Space = Length, width, heigth

Matter = Liquid, Solid, Gas (plasma is just a hotter gas)

As far as the big bang, the only answer I could accept as even plausible would be the membrane theory. This is because this uses something before and outside of our universe.

You can't have nothing, no reference point, to say where and when something would explode.

You can't have no matter or energy, then have it come into existance out of no means.  It couldn't do it itself, it didn't exist. It couldn't have had help, nothing else existed. It needs something outside, and greater than it to make it. No effect is greater than the sum of all of its causes.

Answer 8

Yes.  It was right here.  And right there.  And everywhere else.

The entire universe was 'inside' the big bang.  So therefore, the big bang occurred everywhere.

You're thinking of it as if it was an expansion within space, and you want to know where in space it happened.  That's not what it was, it was an expansion *of* space, so EVERYWHERE in space was where it happened.

For the guy below me:

"You can't have no matter or energy, then have it come into existance out of no means. It couldn't do it itself, it didn't exist. It couldn't have had help, nothing else existed. It needs something outside, and greater than it to make it. No effect is greater than the sum of all of its causes."

Fine then.  Where did god come from?

Boom, there goes your whole argument :)

You say god created himself, then I can say the universe created itself.

You say god has always been, then I can say the universe has always been.

You violated your own logic.  You said everything needs a creator, then immediately propose a god which needed no creator.  Well, which is it?  Does everything need a creator or not?

I have to admit I shuddered a little when you said 'creation scientists.'  No one could be further from science than creationists.

Answer 9

No.

Answer 10

Other people have already given the correct answer - it happened *everywhere*, but this is a tricky concept to grasp (at least, it was for me), so I'll tell you the way I finally understood it:

Our universe is 4-dimensional (three spatitial dimensions, plus the 4th - time). This is tricky to visualise, so let's simplify it to a 3D structure, with 2 spatial dimensions, plus a 3rd one (time).

This would be a flat sheet, where you can move east/west, and north/south, but not up/down (that direction doesn't exist). However, you can bend this sheet in on itself to form a hollow sphere. Anything in this "universe" is still stuck on the surface of this smooth sphere (moving E/W and N/S), but cannot move "up" off the surface or "down" into the centre.

Now imagine this 3rd dimension (up/down) as TIME!

Compress the sphere to a dot - this is the "seed" of the big bang ( a singularity - a point of zero volume). When the big bang occurred, the sphere expands outwards - like blowing-up a balloon.

The sphere is expanding - everything on the balloon's surface is moving away from everything else - but there is no "centre" on the surface where it all expanded from: it is "back in time" (ie - down off the surface of the sphere). And everything on the surface of the sphere was there.

Our universe, then, is a 4D version of that, where we have 3 spatial dimensions plus the 4th one (time).

I hope that helped.

Answer 11

As the universe is expanding it is not possible to mark a location.Everything is moving from the begning.

Answer 12

Red room, blue doom, in terms of spectrum's this means the universe is expanding, since we see background red radiation, we can not determine where the big bang was located because we dont even know if it happened in our universe, there is something called the multiverse, 10 or 11 dimension, i forget, however we can not determine where it begai, however we can see if it is expanding or condensing