The Big Bang

The Big Bang

Through a vast amount of nothing, the universe was created. Many people have doubted the religious belief of creationism when God made Adam and Eve. However, it never said how god created the Earth, only that he made humans and nature on the Earth. These thoughts were the beginning to encouraging research about the creation of the universe and how long it took to get where the Earth is today. The Universe was formed by a theory called The Big Bang; it began with exploding matter, then formed into galaxies, and continues to today's day and age.

In the beginning, all space and energy and matter came into existence from an unknowable void (Hazen, 2012). There was nothing at all, not even space itself. Until something happened. All matter had become concentrated at a specific point. Then the matter became too compressed and exploded; the gravitational pull is what created the galaxies. The gravity kept all the newly made starts that had expanded to still say somewhat together. There is still a lot of space between constantly getting bigger by the century. This phenomenon was known as the Big Bang; originally the name was to mock the theory but instead it was the perfect words to describe it.

As these galaxies and stars are still expanding in distance, scientist can only determine so much information from how long ago the Big Bang happened and how much distance has expanded through time. Scientist can find out the distance using redshift, which is a color spectrum that can expand far through space. Red light goes the farthest, so the farther the redshift is, the bigger the distance. A century ago the observed universe consisted of little In the beginning, all space and energy and matter came into existence from an unknowable void (Hazen, 2012). There was nothing at all, not even space itself. Until something happened. All matter had become concentrated at a specific point. Then the matter became too compressed and exploded; the gravitational pull is what created the galaxies. The gravity kept all the newly made starts that had expanded to still say somewhat together. There is still a lot of space between constantly getting bigger by the century. This phenomenon was known as the Big Bang; originally the name was to mock the theory but instead it was the perfect words to describe it.

As these galaxies and stars are still expanding in distance, scientist can only determine so much information from how long ago the Big Bang happened and how much distance has expanded through time. Scientist can find out the distance using redshift, which is a color spectrum that can expand far through space. Red light goes the farthest, so the farther the redshift is, the bigger the distance. A century ago the observed universe consisted of little more than our galaxy and its near neighbors, but with the development of bigger telescopes, astronomers can now see almost as fas as the horizon (Davies, 2009). Technology has allowed researches to develop more hypotheses and theories about universal evolution. Researches can now theorize the first moments of the Big Bang through evidence of not only Earth rocks but also from meteorites, the moon and other planets.

The Big Bang is the current, most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe, although it must be stressed that it is a best guess not a proven fact (Clegg, 2009). Prior the widespread acceptance of plate tectonics theory in the 1960s, the inferred structure and behavior of Earth was considerable different from the way we now understand it to be (Babcock, 2009). The Earth has change so much over millions of years that the first people who started to notice the different parts of the Earth had a different sight than other researchers have today. Frank Bursely Taylor suggested-presciently as it turned out - that the crunching together of continents could have thrust up the world's mountain chains (Bryson, 2003). Without Taylor there is a possibility that the theory of the formation of mountains may not have existed until much later; which could have led to the possibility to the other theories not existing.

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Before the big bang, scientists believe, the entire vastness of the observable universe, including all of its matter and radiation, was compressed into a hot, dense mass just a few millimeters across. This nearly incomprehensible state is theorized to have existed for just a fraction of the first second of time.

Big bang proponents suggest that some 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, a massive blast allowed all the universe's known matter and energy--even space and time themselves--to spring from some ancient and unknown type of energy. The theory maintains that, in the instant--a trillion-trillionth of a second--after the big bang, the universe expanded with incomprehensible speed from its pebble-size origin to astronomical scope. Expansion has apparently continued, but much more slowly, over the ensuing billions of years.

Scientists can't be sure exactly how the universe evolved after the big bang. Many believe that as time passed and matter cooled, more diverse kinds of atoms began to form, and they eventually condensed into the stars and galaxies of our present universe.