Astronomy
The most common misconception regarding big bang is: lot of people think that Big Bang is an enormous explosion that took place at the beginning of our universe, and is not true.
Its actually was an expanding process that had begin around 13.7 million years ago and is still in continuation.
If you want to imagine the process, try to imagine a balloon expanding when we blow air in to it rather than a popping out balloon.
The second common misconception is that we try to imagine singularity as some glowing fire ball present somewhere in space.
The truth being space, time, matter, and energy, are meaningless before big bang.
Our known universe didn't exist before big bang, and it implies that space happens to exist inside the singularity, not that singularity exists in space.
No one until now knows, where and why did this singularity happened to appear!
All that we know so far is, our universe lies inside it and at some point it was not there and neither did our universe.
- Book Review: Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang
Image: Michael J. Windsor, Stewart Dickson, DoubledayChallenging something so well established like the Big Bang Theory is no easy task. But Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok have done exactly that, presenting a contender, called the Cyclic Theory,...
- Reading List
Some of what I have been reading recently:This article discusses proper motion, the movement of a star in the sky due to its movements in space or even due to the movements of the Sun itself. It uses Barnard's Star as an example, which is located...
- Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe By Simon Singh
Book Review The author, Simon Singh, has written a wonderful history of the Big Bang theory, starting from its very beginnings. He leads up to the important discoveries by starting at the early history of Astronomy with ancient cultures and the Scientific...
- Most Earth Like Worlds Have Yet To Be Born.
According to a new theoretical study, Earth came early to the party in evolving universe. When our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago, only 8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed, which means 92...
- Fundamental Particles That Made Universe
Formation of Matter All matter, including the atoms in our bodies, the air we breathe and the gas in the Sun is composed is combinations of fundamental particles that were created during the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of the Universe. Before giving...
Astronomy
big bang theory-some common misconceptions
The most common misconception regarding big bang is: lot of people think that Big Bang is an enormous explosion that took place at the beginning of our universe, and is not true.
Its actually was an expanding process that had begin around 13.7 million years ago and is still in continuation.
If you want to imagine the process, try to imagine a balloon expanding when we blow air in to it rather than a popping out balloon.
The second common misconception is that we try to imagine singularity as some glowing fire ball present somewhere in space.
The truth being space, time, matter, and energy, are meaningless before big bang.
Our known universe didn't exist before big bang, and it implies that space happens to exist inside the singularity, not that singularity exists in space.
No one until now knows, where and why did this singularity happened to appear!
All that we know so far is, our universe lies inside it and at some point it was not there and neither did our universe.
- Book Review: Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang
Image: Michael J. Windsor, Stewart Dickson, DoubledayChallenging something so well established like the Big Bang Theory is no easy task. But Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok have done exactly that, presenting a contender, called the Cyclic Theory,...
- Reading List
Some of what I have been reading recently:This article discusses proper motion, the movement of a star in the sky due to its movements in space or even due to the movements of the Sun itself. It uses Barnard's Star as an example, which is located...
- Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe By Simon Singh
Book Review The author, Simon Singh, has written a wonderful history of the Big Bang theory, starting from its very beginnings. He leads up to the important discoveries by starting at the early history of Astronomy with ancient cultures and the Scientific...
- Most Earth Like Worlds Have Yet To Be Born.
According to a new theoretical study, Earth came early to the party in evolving universe. When our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago, only 8 percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed, which means 92...
- Fundamental Particles That Made Universe
Formation of Matter All matter, including the atoms in our bodies, the air we breathe and the gas in the Sun is composed is combinations of fundamental particles that were created during the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of the Universe. Before giving...