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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]jade said:[/b] Being that I am not really into the science of things, I may have not explained myself to make sense, but can anyone elaborate on this so I can understand it better? Or direct me to a site to read. [/quote] Hi Jade, I would recommend you get a copy of Bill Bryson's [i]*A Short History of Nearly Everything[/i]. He has a pretty good explanation of how The Big Bang is understood to work that is very understandable to the non-physicist. He starts out by explaining the big-bang theory and moves on to other fields of study, so you can start reading the book at chapter one and quit when you get to a point where he veers off into other subjects, if you want. I also think that last chapter of John Gibbons' [i]Almost Everyone's Guide to Science[/i] is a pretty good explanation of the creation of the universe. He tends to be a little harder to understand though, so you might want to try Bryson's book first. [quote] [b]jade said:[/b] ... was that the bang led the temperature in space to be the same all over the universe and this was cause for deeper study because they didn't understand why. Then upon further study a scientist found that the big bang happened in an instant like in the snap of a finger and this is why all the temperature in space in the same.. Does this make sense? [/quote] I think you may have misunderstood what they were saying, or maybe, they didn't know precisely what they were talking about. The Big Bang theory says that the Big Bang happened in less than a second and we can calculate the instant when particles and matter were formed. We also know, based on the average temperature and the estimated size of the universe today and our understanding of how matter spreading out in a volume will affect temperature, approximately how hot the temperatures around the universe must have been just after the big bang. The temperature of the universe itself caused all that matter to want to spread out. Because it was spreading into what we believe was empty space, it spread to a more or less uniform distribution. But, it was not the Big Bang itself that caused the temperature of the universe to be uniform. I hope that has helped a little. Try reading the books I suggested. If you want to continue to discuss this further, maybe we should start a new thread so as not to disrupt the conversation in this one . -- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful. [url=http://www.hyperbole-software.com/] [img]http://www.hyperbole-software.com/ozone/hyperbole-88x33.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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