How could everything form in one big bang?

[Kalper]

Hawking knew everything, but he was dead.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by harry chickpea

The cat.

elnina I apologize, and won't be upset if you delete this, but I cannot resist.

So God is a cat?

[Milky Way Resident]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

elnina I apologize, and won't be upset if you delete this, but I cannot resist.

So God is a cat?

It's Schrodinger's cat.

[Tek_Freek]

I wonder how it pressed the keys.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by rhbj03

In honor of Stephen Hawking - I am wondering how could everything form in one big bang?

My understanding is this theory primarily rests on the observation that everything is moving away from us. Isn't this logic a bit too simplistic and "linear"? It's like looking at prices keep rising and predict it must be 0 at some point.

And how can everything fit into one "singularity"? We know even an atom has a certain width.

I am atheist, by the way.

I agree 100%. The Big Bang theory is almost as simplistic as creationism is, and therefore about as likely to be true. I'm pretty sure that the origin of the universe, is something a bit more complicated.

On the earth, the continents are expanding too, but nobody is proposing that they magically popped out of one small super-dense singularity in a Big Bang.

[Matadora]

Originally Posted by Cloudy Dayz

On the earth, the continents are expanding too, but nobody is proposing that they magically popped out of one small super-dense singularity in a Big Bang.

How do you explain the Cosmic Microwave Background? I've never heard it described as being magic...so how do you account for it?

Originally Posted by Cloudy Dayz

The Big Bang theory is almost as simplistic as creationism is, and therefore about as likely to be true.

The Big Bang Theory is nothing like creationism...which is nothing more than pseudoscience nonsense and is not a Scientific Theory.