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During the big bang, the matter was flung outwards as the explosion forced the expansion of material yes?

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And in an explosion the matter is fulg outwards in a straight line..in linear patterns? Presuming the condensed matter in the pre exploded form was not spinning, can an astonomer , physicist please explain as direct as you can why the planets and nebula are spinning? Some in opposite ways to each other?

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  1. No. The Big Bang was not an explosion. Matter was not "flung outwards" from anywhere. Bodies spin becuase they retain the residual angular momentum of the clouds that formed them after collapsing under their own gravity, which has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the Big Bang.


  2. Creationist question.

    The 'big bang' was not an explosion.

  3. The image of matter being flung outwards is not quite accurate, as it was space itself that expanded, taking the matter with it. Rotation can arise from linear motion without any initial spin to it. All that is required is for two forces or motions to act on a body in different directions  that are not along the same line. You can find plenty of examples in everyday life where linear motion or force produces rotary motion. The straight up-and-down motion of pistons in an engine turn the wheels of your car, wind blowing in a straight line spins a windmill, and a straight stroke of a pool cue sets the cue ball rolling and spinning.

    Cosomologically, a simple example of the development of circular motion is a small body approaching a larger one. If the small body is not heading directly for the large body, its path will be curved by gravity. If it's not moving too fast, it will fall into orbit and continue to revolve around the larger body. The larger body will pick up an equal but opposite angular momentum. Assuming the the universe started out with zero spin, the conservation of angular momentum tells us that all the spins must add up to zero, so you would expect to see things rotating in opposite directions.

  4. All matter moves, nothing moves in a straight line. The gas created by the big bang after it cooled, gathered into great clouds, the molecules of gas began to move towards the centre of gravity of the cloud, these molecules spiralled inward, this caused a spinning of the core of the mass. The same process takes place in the forming of planets as material is collected from the accretion disc.

  5. 300,000 years after the Big Bang, it finally cooled enough for atoms to seperate from the radiation. This matter was not distributed evenly. Any time you do not have an absolute even distribution of matter, you have an effect called gravitational collapse. This collapse produces spin because of magnetic and gas and radiation pressures which are resisting the collapse. Also, all molecular structures will not bond with others due to differing electron energy levels contributing to the collapse resistance.

    Planets (having been formed out of this spinning nebula) continue this spin through the effect called conservation of angular momentum which is due to the law that once an object is in motion it will continue in motion unless affected by an outside force.

    The formation of a solar system is far from being one of intelligent design. It is chaotic beyond your imagination. Collisions of bolides are intense. Large objects can destroy protoplanets, study the Giant Impact theory and you will see how our Moon was formed, not by a god, but by a collision with a Mars-sized planet. Large object collisions can alter the axial rotation of planets such as Uranus and collisions can completely tip a planet such as Venus.

    If we accept a divine creation, then we must explain why this god chose to create our solar system violently and chaotically instead of simply snapping his/her fingers (assuming that god has fingers). Why have elliptical instead of circular orbits? Why go through the process of having 3 generations of stars before there exists the carbon and other metallic atoms for life to be possible? Why wait 10 billion years before creating our Sun? Why wait another 4 billion years before creating hominids? Why have our Sun on the outer edge of a galaxy? Why have our galaxy in a Local Group of galaxies seperated from the rest of the Universe? Why is our galaxy travelling through space?

    There are still things that we do not know about the Big Bang. Remember that it was the Catholic Church which did not even allow the heliocentric model of our Solar System to be though of as a possible THEORY (not a truth) until the early 1700's.

    Innocent and great men and women were tortured and imprisoned and horribly killed just so we could say that Earth rotates around the Sun.

    While it is true that we are still learning things about how the Universe was created, we have come a long way in the last 300 years. And while our understanding is not by any means complete, the concept of a god snapping his fingers is simply not a plausible concept.

    If god exists in some form which we can not yet define, which is totally possible, we can credit this god for many things. Creation of the Universe however is not one of these.

    A reason does not exist why we cannot credit the creation of the Universe to Nature. Just as we credit wind and rain and fire to Nature.

  6. As I understand it..the 1st part of the creation of the universe was the production of energy.

    Matter was created from energy.

    As energy "condensed" into more complex forms i.e electrons or positrons...they became attracted or repelled to one another and some due to angular momentum started to spin.

    So much proto-matter was created,the gaxlaxies you see today still have some of the spinning momentum imparted during the early part of "the big bang".

    But other forces such as gravity are mostly the cause of motion in the universe.

    Take for instance "super black holes".

    One has been proposed for the center of our galaxy(and most other spiral galaxies) which creates such a strong angular force on matter as it falls into the singularity at the center that the whole galaxy is affected.

  7. The Big Bang was actually not an explosion; it was the beginning of the expansion of space which continues to this day.  But you are right in that it resulted in bits of matter getting farther and farther apart from each other in more or less straight lines.

    The reason we have spinning of galaxies, nebulae and planets (and for that matter, tornadoes and washing machines and cats) is because of the forces of interaction between the different bits of matter.  The expansion of space caused bits of matter to move apart, but not so fast that their mutual gravitational attraction couldn't pull them back together.  Whenever you have things pulling on each other in a direction that's different from their relative velocity, the result is that they tend to circle each other.

    The fact that things spin in different directions is no mystery.  Pushes and pulls can make things spin in any direction.  The only "law" is that the total angular momentum (which is like a measure of the total "amount" and "direction" of all the spinning parts) must remain the same within any closed system (i.e. any system which does not get whacked by some outside force).

    If the total angular momentum of the universe is zero, that does NOT mean that nothing inside it can spin.  All it means is that, for everything that spins "clockwise," there must be something else (somewhere) that spins "counter-clockwise" so that the TOTAL spin cancels out to zero.

  8. THERE WAS NO BIG BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

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