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Big Bang Whoa, Redux
Posted by CelticBear on July 31st, 2006
Back last October I wrote a blog regarding some misconceptions about the Big Bang:
“Mind-Blowing Big Bang Developments.”
In it I describe how like most people, I suffered under a completely misguided and erroneous misconception of what the Big Bang was. Like most people I thought it was everything collected in a single point and exploding in an instant out. But I’d also heard that scientists knew the universe to be infinite in size. This didn’t mesh, so I did some asking and questioning, and come to find out, yes the universe is infinite and no, the Big Bang didn’t at all happen like I and most people thought.
Well, Bad Astronomer Phil Plait has an article today pointing to The Angry Astronomer (sheesh, these astronomers really need to switch to decaf) and his explanation of some Big Bang misconceptions, such as the one I just pointed out, as well as questions about the proof of the Big Bang.
Check it out, if you have the guts to learn! Bwa-hahahahaha! =)
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 pm
[...] be both finite and in a way, infinite (in direction, meaning, there’s no outside edge,) here: Big Bang Whoa, Redux where I discuss how every point of the universe is the “center” of the universe, and [...]