Ok, I think this is actually the 'real' answer to my question. There are alternatives being researched. The issue is with the media. Even in non-science media 'dark energy' and 'dark matter' are plastered everywhere. But the alternatives are never discussed, even in popular science media (that...
Um, no; I was very happy with the original responses, it was someone else who started the whole 'expansion rings' thing.
The only problem I now have about the big bang expansion is the oversimplification presented by the science media; and that's probably acceptable in the same way that 'the...
Ok; forget my last post. I was tired and couldn't read correctly. I was actually rather surprised to see any responses to my OP, as for a long time there weren't any, and I'd not been notified of any updates.
Thanks for your replies, all; I will endeavour to read and understand them as best as...
Thanks for calling me out for an idiot without citing a single reference I can follow up to confirm this. All I've said is 'untrue' in your opinion, (and I'm surely hoping it is) but I have come no closer whatsoever to being able to believe you. Science isn't based upon derogatory opinions, last...
Me too.
No; I get this now (as a result of asking this question).
The universe seems to have started everywhere, and all at once. All of that is expanding simultaneously.
I've paid very specific attention to 'modern' science documentaries on the topic; and they mostly agree with this...
Touche.
I guess I still have this concept of everything being compressed, somehow. The 'Hot Big Bang', after all. Where there is too much energy in the space it occupies for the single particles we now know to even exist in that form. And then things 'spread out' and 'cool down' so that matter...
I did know this, but hadn't put two and two together in terms of the origins of the universe. So thanks for that; it makes a lot of sense.
So I'll re-phrase my question. Is there still the concept that at one point in time "everywhere" was infinitesimally small? And is this necessarily the only...
Summary: The universe is expanding, so at one point in the past it must have been all concentrated into a single point. But is this really an accurate observation?
Hi,
This is my second probably naive question that's been on my mind as a lay-scientist for a long time (the other will hopefully...
Forgive my naive understanding of these topics. I have a layman's interest in science and follow all the popular science I can, but I'm certainly not a physicist and even my degree in mathematics is now all but forgotten in the past.
But I have two questions (the other I'll post in another...