What i was getting a was after the big bang you would expect fragments shards etc not round spheres

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What i was getting a was after the big bang you would expect fragments shards etc not round spheres

Answer 1

The Big Bang was no fragmentation grenade.

First of all, it was no explosion, but a rapid expansion of spacetime. You can't compare it to a chemical or nuclear explosion, which is an expansion of matter.

Next, if you explode explosives without any solid shell around them, you have also no fragments or shards. You just have a expanding cloud of reaction products and a shock wave ahead of it.

Answer 2

the big bank was not an explosion of any kind of matter, at the start of the universe there was no matter, there was pure energy, as the universe cooled down matter was formed, as all the fundamental forces act in a spherical pattern you would not get shards but spheres

Answer 3

The big bang was not a big explosion where bits of matter went off in all directions never to meet.

The 'explosion' was not a conventional one, but it created space and time, along with a lot of energy. The energy eventually turned into matter and the matter is concentrated in areas (galaxies, for example) because of gravity. Gravity is the only fundamental force that governs the interactions of matter over huge distances (as all charges cancel and other forces only apply over small distances).

Answer 4

a) the Big Bang was not an explosion

b) there was no solid mass to make fragments

Answer 5

  Gravity sculpts spheres.

Answer 6

Over Billions and Billions of years the Suns gravity shaped the planets in our solar system into spheres by collecting fragments of rock, dust, and all atoms of the universe like nitrogen and carbon and locking it in orbit and spinning this stuff over time

Answer 7

The shape of each planet or star is, for the most part, determined by the gravitational forces of that matter that comprise that object.

If you want to think of "fragments shards etc", then the planets are formed when some of those "fragments shards etc" coalesce into a single object, and that single object will end up being roughly spherical.

Aside, the big bang is not the only theory out there. A few cosmologists still support the Steady State theory.

http://science.jrank.org/pages/6476/Stea...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_stat...

Answer 8

According to Einstein, matter cannot be created or destroyed..The same goes for energy.

They can, however, be changed...  i.e. matter can be changed into energy and vice versa.

That's how the atomic bomb works.  The matter in the bomb (the Uranium) undergoes a reaction which converts almost all of into energy.

The old E=Mc2  idea.

The beginning of the universe (as far as we know because physic laws break down due to the incredible temperatures and pressures thought to exist then) was really just pure energy.  How it got there... well thats still not known.

But the energy expanded at extremely high temperatures and velocity.

As it expanded it started to cool and the sub atomic particles were formed from the energy.

Larger particles were formed as these "clumped" together under the force of gravity (the weak force).

As gravity did its magic larger and larger particles were formed.

Shall I go on???

Answer 9

you'd only expect that if you thought something solid exploded. but why would you think that? we know that when the cosmic microwave background radiation was emitted, the universe was plasma (ionised gas), not a solid. formation of stars and planets was not a direct result of the big bang, it came much later under the influence of gravity.

Answer 10

It was not a solid ball that exploded. It was the big ball of hydrogen that exploded.The universe was all gas at first.

Answer 11

You seem to feel that something big exploded at the moment of the big bang.

In fact an infinitely small "thing" known as a singularity suddenly underwent a massive and catastrophic expansion - virtually creating something out of nothing.

The universe and all the galaxies and planets it contains were created after the big bang - they are not left over bits of an explosion.

  

Answer 12

Gravity tends to pull just about any sufficiently large object into a round shape over a long enough period of time. In addition, the Big Bang did not immediately produce any solid, material objects, just gas. This gas took millions of years to coalesce into stars, which produced the heavy elements forming later solid objects such as planets, asteroids, comets and so on. During star and planet formation, gravity is the agent responsible for the round shapes of the large objects. Some smaller objects, like asteroids, can take on other shapes that aren't very round.

Answer 13

Have you heard of gravity?

Answer 14

I'm not surprised in the least, if you can comprehend this.  I'm so sorry for you.

Answer 15

beg your pardon?

Answer 16

You have already got some good answers e.g. from John M and Ms. Minger so I will not repeat them except to write that the big bang was not an explosion of matter, it was an expansion of space filled with energy.  Some of this energy became matter a good while later and a lot later than that, the first stars began to form under the influence of gravity, which is a force that appeared after the big bang.  There were no planets as the elements that form planets, silicon, iron, carbon, oxygen etc did not exist in any quantity until cooked up in the interiors of stars over millions of years.

The suggestion that the big bang produced shards is typical of the lies promoted by creationist leaders.    

Answer 17

From what I understand, and I may be wrong, the Big Bang theory is that an atom became unstable and caused an explosion, creating matter in the process...my question is...if there was nothing there to begin with...where did the atom come from? and why did it suddenly become unstable? to me, the Big Bang is just another stupid theory - it doesn't make sense.

Answer 18

You are on the right track! In an UNGUIDED explosion, there would be random scatter, but since the Big Bang was instigated by the Spirit of God (Let there be Light!) and creation began, all the matter was and is being guided to exactly where God wants it.

FOUR thumbs down? At least check out my PhD professor source before you do! His credentials are as good as anyones!

John M-"The beginning of the universe (as far as we know because physic laws break down due to the incredible temperatures and pressures thought to exist then) was really just pure energy. How it got there... well thats still not known."

THAT'S GOD!!!!! The First Cause, Prime Mover, Creator!

Ken E and others- You simply cannot have gravity without mass.If the energy from the Bang spread in all directions, and became matter later, how did mass originate? You must have at LEAST hydrogen atoms close enough to attract each other, or a Guiding Hand.