The Moment After the Big Bang

[pym]

I don't know if you guys are religous and all, but this is really interesting to read as physicists announced that the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second... :shock:

Read on... (http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=10100002JAJW)

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/4216/explosionbigbang4po.th.jpg

[liqnit]

this is really interesting
any chnage in time culd have made a whole diffrent universe

[3D_Mind]

I am a physics nut and a Christian. I dismiss various tenets of modern physics thinking when it is blatantly against the Word of God, esspecailly when the physicists have little to no evidence other then long equations to prove it, they almost operate on faith as much as I do!

This has been a long standing asspect of the Big Bang theory, that the universe had an "Inflation" period for a miniscule fraction of a second that gave it a large precentage of its current "size".

What is interesting is that the inflation hypothosis actually supports the Bible! If the universe did indeed undergo the inflation period, then the argument that the universe must be 15 billion years old because that is how many light years we can see at a maximum, is false. The time would be much less as the universe travaled FASTER then light in its inflation period, allowing light to already be deposited along the way and to give the illusion that the universe is 15 billion years old just because it is 15 billion light years in "diameter". When God created the universe, this very well may have been His method, to simply place the universe in a compleated state in a compleated size, rather then have it "evolve" for 15 billion years. If this is ture, then the real age of the universe is MUCH less then previously thought, maybe even only about 6000 years...

[s_gibson]

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Nuff said :wink:

[alx737]

I not Christian, but i'm intrested in science and its really great news.

[DirtyPolish]

i am a devoted catholic so i dont belive this i follow my religion but i love science and everything based apon it.... this is really really creepy tho because ummm 2 weeks ago in my earth science class( im a freshman in high school) i was just reading about this in our text book. its really interesting but i think that i would never stop beliving in my religion :D

[Bryan]

If this is ture, then the real age of the universe is MUCH less then previously thought, maybe even only about 6000 years...
I'm not saying this to be contentious or a jerk, but I am curious as to how a scientifically adept Christian reconciles carbon dating to the Bible's timeline. Your thoughts?

[digitalwanderer]

I am curious as to how a scientifically adept Christian reconciles carbon dating to the Bible's timeline. Your thoughts?
Isn't the term "scientifically adept Christian" an oxymoron? At least where it comes to religion? :?

[veltsikas]

woowww....
cool..

that is scary..i wonder what happen´s if something exploses again.

[DirtyPolish]

veltsikas

its not that its gonna explode its gonna implode. then everything will shrink into the size of a little marble again. the sun will become a blue star and die. everything everthought of will be destroyed. and this is expectedt o happen in like a couple million years.

off the topic/ this would be a tight ass story line like your some dude and you gotta save the universe from the universe. i donno lol

[leaglebob]

I think the popular press does a very bad job of qualifying their newsflashes.

Everytime I go somewhat "in depth" on these issues it turns out "scientists" don't know what to think except that under the 11 string theory of overlapping universes, the red shift we see at the edge of the universe is most consistently explained by plugging in a hyper-rapid expansion for the first trillionth of a second. And, it makes no difference I will be the man who shot Liberty Valance--err--who showed Einstein was wrong?

Say, is the latest theory that the universe started out as the size of a volkswagen, an orange, a golf ball, a singularity, or nothing?