Sorry to ressurect this thread but I've started a blog on this and was hoping that some of you could visit it and tell me what you think.
The address is http://phil-astroscott.blogspot.com/2010/06/hi-im-phil-and-ive-decided-to-take-my.html"
This link is to my first post as I'd like it if...
I would guess that was because until the BBT came around most people hadn't considered the possibility of an expanding universe so would have had no reason to believe it had been the result of an explosion.
Though this wasn't taken seriously until Hubble's discovery of the Galactic Redshift...
I guess my original question is based on what I like to think of as the common sense way of looking at things. To me it seems that if you can follow events backward and find a time when everything was in a compressed state it makes sense to assume it came from some sort of explosion. Now I...
This just proves that the pressure didn't come from a central distinguishable source within whatever exploded. However there still could have been pressure from every part of the 'mass' acting on every other part.
I thought gravity slowed the expansion.
Hate to disagree but...