do u believe in the Big Bang?
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Do you believe … ?\n\nBelief in One Theory\n\nAs soon as these words are uttered, a great and unfortunate polarization tends to occur.  So many take the position that “my idea is all correct and your idea is all wrong.”  These ideas can be labeled as theories, doctrines, or whatever; they challenge us to examine our ideas and the views of others.  If we are insecure, we prefer to dismiss the viewpoints of others rather than examine our own.  However, if we are emotionally mature, we tend to be willing to review our own position and seek the merit in the perspective of others.  Such emotional maturity was once defined as “I am what I am, nothing better, nothing worse, and I find it good.”  This non-competitive stance is essential for open-minded pursuit of truth and knowledge.\n\nAny one who knows about blueprints, mechanical drafting, or architecture understands that it takes at least 3 different viewpoints to be able to accurately understand and recreate anything.  The most commonly used are the top, side, and front views.  For example, a table from the top view is a long and wide rectangle.  From the front view it is narrow and long.   From the side view it is narrow and short.  It is fruitless to argue that any one of these perspectives is false.\n\nIn layman’s terms, we might say that the sky is blue.  Someone else that it is orange.  In comprehensive reality, we can admit that it is sometimes blue and sometimes orange; indeed, sometimes it can be both at the same time.\n\nScientists may argue that light consists of waves, not particles.  Other scientists might insist that light is made of particles, not waves.  However, many modern scientists are beginning to embrace the necessity of models that include both these concepts.  Moreover, the characteristics of something do not have to be restricted to only 2 or 3 substantiated theories or viewpoints; a deep understanding of things may involve a panoramic examination of multiple views, like a spinning and swerving car in a television commercial.\n\nWith that foundation, we have been asked by the author and responders to consider which view: the Big Bang Theory, the Big Crunch, or God created our universe.  To this, I am inclined to answer “perhaps all of the above.”  Let me point out the relative merits of each position briefly and how they could possibly harmonize.\n\nThe Big Bang\n\nThe Big Bang Theory remains the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe.  The red shift of light from distant nebulas proves that everything is moving away from a starting point, an expanding universe.  The fact that there is a relationship between these celestial objects speed and their distance reinforces their common origin.  If true, there should be cosmic background radiation, and there is.  Physics tends to support the details of the theory including the cooling that may have lead to the sequential creation of matter and antimatter particles, including quarks, protons, neutrons, electrons, neutrinos and photons.  Similarly, the relative properties of the basic elements tend to support their sequential development, including deuterium (heavy hydrogen), tritium and helium.  The ratio of one helium atom for every ten or eleven atoms of hydrogen is a constant in the universe today.\n\nUnresolved problems with this theory are the age of the universe and the basis on a “singularity” (an event which defies current rules of physics).   Also, while the Big Bang Theory defines an event of creation, it does not define what caused it to happen.\n\nThe Big Crunch\n\nIf the total gravitational force of all matter is high enough, it would slow the expansion of the universe, and then reverse it, causing the Big Crunch of everything, the opposite of the big expansion called the Big Bang. All matter and energy would be compressed back into a gravitational singularity.  This theory does not explain what would happen after this event, which may occur in about 42 billion
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this is actually a common misconception about the big bang.  the big bang theory says that spacetime itself originated in that event.  the big bang theory is supported by evidence very well.  no other theory or hypothesis is.\n\nread these:\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
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no i dont think so. i think is a bunch of hooey. and it also depends on what you believe. how was the universe formed. if you know that you can take that and use it to see what you think about it
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the big bang happened 13.7 billion years ago.  also, i have something else for you to think about.  the universe is 13.7 billion years old, yet we can observe parts of the universe that are about 46 billion lightyears away.\n\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147
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I believe it. I also believe in the theory, in which, as you may also know, whole cosmos is going to turn back into that extra atom. What I wonder alot, when the expansion of the universe will stop and start to shrink back :=)))
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Why not a big bang caused by devine intervention ?  ;-)
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your answer is in \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
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The big bang was the starting point of time and the universe, and I think there is enough corroborating evidence to show that it is most likely true.
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I do!  Do you believe in God?
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This question is completely confused. I have attached a web site about the big bang you might find useful.
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Yes I do. Think of how big we can honestly say we know that space is, then think a million times that size. There are probably millions of different universes out there.
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ok..the big bang is not true..the accepted theory is..wen all the elemstns from earth went to outer space and the moon's gravity pulled it ans tthats how the moon was created
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yes i believe in God.\nsee it this way.....we havnt seen God so y we should believe Him, but look at this way too.....we havnt seen air, but we say that air exists coz we breath. also, no one has seen electricity yet we believe that there is electricity coz we r feeling cool under our fan, or we r able to read at night since the bulb of our room is glowing.So we prove the existence of air and electricity by feeling them. similarly, we should feel that the system of this universe is so well organised that only a power like God can do this.\nif u think that science hasnt prove the existence of God then science is also unable to deny the existence of God.\na simple question?.....u came from ur parents , ur parents come from ur grandparents....they how first man came on earth?.......science has given the theory of evolution and origin of life to solve this question,but this theory has the greatest disadvantage that it hasnt been proved yet.\nanother simple point.if science is unable to disprove the existence but can do so in 'some more years' , then u should believe in God till those 'some more years', then we will see further..\nif u want to contact me further ....send me mail at religion_zaeem@rediffmail.com....
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Accually, indepandent,the big bang theroy would work if two things.it had proof and it accually explained were matter came from.what was there before the bang that caused the bang?the universe expanding thing isnt even prooven.But if u read the Bible, it says that God made everything.EVERYTHING. INCLUDING TIME and SPACE.God was and is not bound to time.know y? because He made it.our mind cant comprehend it,and thats no surprise.\nanywho, the big bang theroy does not support the beginning of the universe because the bang was caused by something.\n\nP.S.about evolution--it is allready disprooved by simply the second law of thermodynamics.nothing gets from bad to good, like life forms(ape like to human).it all just gets worse.and it has.
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I'm with you. I don't believe there was a Big Bang either, so try this...........\n\nWe are all individuals, so our experience of "the" universe is each of our universes. I experience the universe through my senses (sound, light, feeling - including heat, smell, and taste, as well as any "undiscovered" senses, but we won't go there!). You experience the universe through your senses. So, I have a universe and you have a universe, which is different to mine because we have both had different experiences in our life.\n\nStay with me here......\n\nMy universe has only one end (let's call it the "start"). That end is where my senses tell me I am now. There is no "other end" to the universe, since as soon as I get there, I am at the new "start "of my universe. A bit like chasing a rainbow's end. The same is true for you, however our "start"'s will never be the same, since I can never occupy the same "space" as you at the same "time" as you. So, we are living in "parallel" universes.\n\nTime and space are very poor descriptions that humankind gives to concepts that we cannot comprehend (yet). Newton (and Einstein for that matter - no pun intended!) was confined to the earth, where linearity is the best approximation in life. Really, Newtons First Law would be better expressed as "Everything continues in Simple Harmonic Motion unless acted upon by an external force.". Imagine a flat air table that extended in all directions for millions of miles or kilometers. If you place a puck on it and give it a push, it will eventually return to the place it started as the earth's gravitational pull will bring it back to the closest point it can get to the earth. Think about it, all motion is really simple harmonic, it's just that we are often looking at a very small part of the path of an object.\n\nAnyway, I believe that in the decades and centuries to come, humankind will realise this oversight and the universe will suddenly take on a whole new "meaning".\n\nAgain, I agree with you....there was no Big Bang.
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This universe is an event that occurs once and does not occur again.\n  Its existence or nonexistence has no relevance to anything but itself.\n   The big bang will not occur again!
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err the big bang was not really a a collision of matter. All mass and energy in the universe existed at a sigularity, or a dimensionless point. The Big Bang simply expanded and inflated it.