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I'm everyone's type, yet at the same time, no one's. Deal with it.
Come on, even a cursory glance at the first paragraph of the entry in Wikipedia reveals that the Big Bang theory does not explain the origin of the universe, but its behaviour since its birth:
The essential idea is that the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past and continues to expand to this day.
Without any evidence associated with the earliest instant of the expansion, the Big Bang theory cannot and does not provide any explanation for such an initial condition, rather explaining the general evolution of the universe since that instant.
It also list many lines of evidence that both lead to and have since been consistent with the theory, and how it is useful.
But there is an issue with causality in people's understanding of it. Which is not surprising, people can't even understand beginnings and becomings in all instances of such "events", let alone the whole damn universe. What caused the big bang? Is this even the right sort of question to ask? We don't know. No evidence can survive past the singularity state at the beginning. As far as we know. |
I still think that, as big a mystery as the Big Bang is, and despite there being arguments for and against it, the mini Big Bang experiment this September is a bad idea. I mean, there's like, 3 or 4 ways it could plausibly end the world.
And AM, join the queue. Now you too know what it's like to be betrayed by that great big cheater Max!