Does anyone know where he Milky Way galaxy is in relation to where the Big Bang exploded?

Question

Does anyone know where he Milky Way galaxy is in relation to where the Big Bang exploded?

Answer 1

This is one of the main problems with the Big Bang Theory, that it can not explain this.

The typical answers to your question are that there IS no center for the universe and that "EVERYWHERE" is the center so really the Milky Way Galaxy IS athe the exact center but so is every other galaxy.

Are we having fun yet?

I think of it this way ...it's not a matter of where the Big Bang took place but a matter of where and when it took place, since time and space are not seperate things but together are the universe.

So, the Big Bang took place during the Big Bang AT the Big Bang.

And since there WAS no where or when at the singularity (no time or space.

In short....WE DON"T KNOW and CAN"T know;)

Answer 2

Nobody knows. That's why it's called the Big Bang Theory. If people actually DID know, it wouldn't be a theory anymore. It would be a proven fact or a conclusion.

Answer 3

That is impossible. First of all, the Big Bang was never an explosion. That is a completely wrong image and actually lures you on the wrong path. The Big Bang is the beginning of the whole universe, time and space, inside a singularity (or at least close to singular conditions). The matter or energy is not expanding - it is space and time which expands.

Because of that, all expands away from each other equally and you couldn't find a direction in the expansion. Regardless where you are inside the universe, you will always measure the same expansion.

Answer 4

This is one of the mysteries of Big Bang theory.  The universe appears much the same in every direction we look, and everything is expanding away from everything.  That's not the appearance one would expect if there had been an explosion radiating outward from a single point into empty space.

So of course that isn't what happened at all.  Some people above have stated that it is space-time itself that is expanding, and this is correct, though harder to picture than the explosion thing.

Something else to read is Inflationary Universe theory, or Cosmic Inflation.  Here's a link.  

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/...

Answer 5

The Big Bang happened everywhere. You cannot define where anything is in relation to it.