(April 15, 2014 at 5:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 14, 2014 at 10:04 pm)Jiggerj Wrote: We've always heard that nothing but gases came out of the Big Bang. Even gases are made up of atoms. Science now tells us that atoms are made up of quantum particles.
Well, if those atom-made gases are what exploded out of the Big Bang, then where (in what dimension) did the quantum particles come together to form those atoms?
If you've 'always heard that nothing but gases came out of the Big Bang', you need to find other people to listen to. Either that, or you need to listen more closely. Gases did NOT come out of the Big Bang - they formed later. Even the subatomic nuclei which formed the atoms which formed the gases were not an immediate product of the BB.
Nothing 'exploded' out of the BB.
The quantum particles you refer to formed in the earlier (but not earliest) phase of the expansion, a period known as 'symmetry breaking'. To ask in what dimension the quanta formed is an incoherent question.
I confess to having done some research on this topic. It took 6 minutes, not ten years. Lazy bastard, you.
Boru
addendum: erm, yeah. What Chuck said.
This is the best post made on this thread so far. And, most accurate.
What came out of the big bang was not 'matter' at least not immediately . It is important to note DeBroglie's dual nature hypothesis. It was an expansion of pure energy. The most fundamental particles take on wave properties and those particles during the expansion could've not behaved like particles. There simply wasn't enough space for them to be particles in the very early stages of the singularity.
PM me if you know where this is from "...knees in the breeze" and don't look it up!!
