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What to say when somebody asks about the big bang
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 (October 18, 2016 at 9:29 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(October 18, 2016 at 9:04 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I am a hospice nurse and isolationist family man. Vedder nailed it with "Just Breathe"! A great song. That is all!
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 RE: What to say when somebody asks about the big bang
October 18, 2016 at 9:45 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2016 at 9:46 pm by Arkilogue.)
(October 18, 2016 at 9:32 pm)chimp3 Wrote:(October 18, 2016 at 9:29 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: "Did I say that I love you? Did I say that I wanted you? A great artist. "Gonna rise up, burning black holes in dark memories. Gonna rise up, turning mistakes into gold."
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting, I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder  RE: What to say when somebody asks about the big bang
November 7, 2016 at 2:01 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2016 at 2:42 am by Losty.)
Read [snip]. It describes how the universe began based on the current accepted theory (inflation) and quantum mechanics.
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Like others have said, if you're not a physicist, it's not really your job to explain the big bang. You can, however, explain to your friends WHY the evidence that supports the big bang makes sense to you. Basically, the detection of cosmic radiation coupled with the fact that all galaxies, to this day, are still moving away from one another, suggests that at one point everything that exists expanded from one point and is still expanding today. It is sort of a hard concept to understand because, as far as we know, neither time nor space existed outside of this "point" or singularity... so the universe didn't really expand into anything, it just sort of expanded outward into itself, from itself. There is no edge or center to the universe because the universe That is, at least, my elementary understanding of the idea and it's very possible I'm getting something wrong there. The idea makes sense to me. Also, check out these links https://www.nasa.gov/subject/6890/the-big-bang/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrYF_hxxUM There's plenty of info out there on the big bang that explains the evidence in an easily understandable way. Maybe look up some other youtube videos on the subject.
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 (November 8, 2016 at 7:15 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: "The cigarette afterwards was the best." When you smoke a cig, you can always justify it as "the cigarette after the Big Bang" 
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 (November 8, 2016 at 7:08 am)operator Wrote: ... WHY the evidence that supports the big bang makes sense to you. Galactic clusters Quote:to this day, are still moving away from one another, suggests that at one point everything that exists expanded from one point and is still expanding today. ... If cluster A is three times as far away as cluster B, then cluster A is receding at three times the speed as cluster B. That is, not only did they come from the same place, but, they left here at the same time.  
Without Faith It Is Impossible To Please God Religious Views: Theistic Apatheist Armed Catholic Christian (October 16, 2016 at 7:33 am)zak Wrote: This is my first actual post that is not a greeting.Tell them that the big bangs all a big lie and it never happened and there's no evidence.  (November 12, 2016 at 2:24 pm)Edward John Wrote: Tell them that the big bangs all a big lie and it never happened and there's no evidence. Quote:There are several main pieces of evidence that support the Big Bang theory. One is the fact that the universe is expanding, proven with something called red shift. The second is something called cosmic microwave background radiation. The third is the abundance of different elements in the universe. You're a crackpot. There is plenty of evidence for the big bang. ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg) 
Well yeah when it comes to stuff like that I only let convo up to some point (like on this forum) after which I suggest them to read the book on that topic and when it comes to big bang I would suggest "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe" by Steven Weinberg or "A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss.
That's why there's a short movie about childhood of Carl Sagan where he as a little boy asked people "what are stars?" and they told him to read a book about it which started a magical journey of enlightenment and learning about the universe.
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