Contrary to what is often portrayed in popular presentations of the Big Bang, the event was NOT an explosion of dense matter into empty space. It wasn't an explosion of ANYTHING. It was an expansion of space itself -- and it was NOT expanding into anything.
In other words, the expansion took place at all parts of our Universe at the same time. Our Earth is as much at the center of the Big Bang as every other point in our Universe.
It is important to first realize that the big bang theory is a theory; it is not a physical law on its own for which there might be loopholes. However, I think (correct me if I am wrong though), that you are referring to the idea that the big bang theory states that the Universe started with a bang which just came into being out of nothing. This is not entirely correct, the big bang theory does not implicitly say that the Universe came into being at some point; it only says that in the distant past the Universe was very small and that it has been expanding ever since. This statement is well verified by observations and measurements. It does not claim or explain how the Universe came into being. It might sound reasonable that the Universe somehow came into being as a point, and it would fit with the above statements, but the creation of the Universe itself is not yet something that science can say much about. There are models, such as string theory, that sometimes have things to say about this, but they are far from testable at this stage. So, yes, it is possible that something else happened before the Universe became tiny and started to expand, and it wouldn't contradict with the big bang theory at all.
Edwin Hubble was one of the scientists who realized that the red-shifted light from far-away galaxies indicated that the universe is expanding.
As far as I understand, the Big Bang theory is not a challenge to the cosmological argument at all. The cosmological argument states that there must have been a beginning to the universe, which is confirmed by modern science. The cosmological argument further is often held to indicate that that beginning must have been an intelligent agent, which is neither confirmed nor denied by cosmology.
It has.
Nobody really knows. There are many different conclusions that are normally sorted by religion. Different religious groups believe different conclusions on who or what created the earth. There are thousands. Its generally believed that the Big Bang was the more scientific decision on how the world around us was created, and God isn't normally spoken about with the Big Bang. But, as I mentioned, nobody knows. God could have created the Big Bang, but I, and many scientists, think not.
They did attend as far as i know.
The Pope does, so I guess other Christians can, too.At a very fundamental level, the phrase "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." is not a bad description, as far as we know, of the conditions prior to the Big Bang.
The "Big Freeze" does not replace the Big Bang, it is only an extrapolation of the current theory into the far distant future. It may or may not be "true" as there are other extrapolations will different results.
The main evidence for the Big Bang is the expansion of the Universe, as seen from the Doppler effect. That is, light from other stars or galaxies changes color depending on the relative velocity to Earth; it turns out that all far-away galaxies are receding from us.
Theories of the universe are cosmologies. There are three main theories concerning our universe. These are the big bang theory, the steady state theory, and the oscillating universe theory. Each of these attempts to account for the observed expansion of the universe. So far the big bang theory is far and away the strongest of these three. If there was a big bang, there should be microwave background radiation. This radiation has been observed, and the age of the universe calculated to 13.7 billion years.'What are the theories of the universe' in Spanish = 'Cuales son las teorias del universo?'
I think you mean the steady state theory. This is the idea that new matter is constantly being created as the universe expands. We now have evidence that the big bang theory is a far more likely one.
That's the primary problem with the big bang theory - the universe has been mapped back to a couple of billionths of a second after the big bang occurred and all the data from then and beyond fits perfectly with the predictions postulated by the big bang theory itself, but there are limits to how far back you can see. However, the conflicting theories miserably fail to provide an idea as to why the universe started either - religions state that there was a god beforehand, which is infinitely more complex than an explosion, the steady state theory in addition to being pretty much disproven requires that the universe was there to start with, and Occam's razor then leads to the big bang theory. It's the simplest explanation that makes sense, but no theory in existence has a satisfactory argument as to why the universe started in the first place.
The big bang theory is merely a theory as far as it goes, but is a scientific one. There are differences in scientific theories and just common theories, a scientific theory is commonly backed by some facts and other ways to show evidence. From my understanding the big bang started out as a HUGE mass in the vastness of space, and then with matter and all colliding it exploded into everything the universe is filled with now. Suns, planets, etc. Though on the other end of the spectrum some people agree that the big bang started from nothing and matter and energy exploded into everything. Either one of these explain how the world was born. As for life, that's a whole new theory.
Doppler shift shows that galaxies are moving away from each other at rates that depend on how far apart they are. According to the Big Bang Theory, the universe began with an enormous explosion. Then, the entire universe began to expand everywhere at the same time.The doppler shift shows that galaxies are moving away from each other at rates that depend on how far apart they are.
It is important to first realize that the big bang theory is a theory; it is not a physical law on its own for which there might be loopholes. However, I think (correct me if I am wrong though), that you are referring to the idea that the big bang theory states that the Universe started with a bang which just came into being out of nothing. This is not entirely correct, the big bang theory does not implicitly say that the Universe came into being at some point; it only says that in the distant past the Universe was very small and that it has been expanding ever since. This statement is well verified by observations and measurements. It does not claim or explain how the Universe came into being. It might sound reasonable that the Universe somehow came into being as a point, and it would fit with the above statements, but the creation of the Universe itself is not yet something that science can say much about. There are models, such as string theory, that sometimes have things to say about this, but they are far from testable at this stage. So, yes, it is possible that something else happened before the Universe became tiny and started to expand, and it wouldn't contradict with the big bang theory at all.
Edwin Hubble was one of the scientists who realized that the red-shifted light from far-away galaxies indicated that the universe is expanding.
As far as we know, it happened only once.