highwaystar101 said:
What I don't understand is why people are so reluctant to accept the big bang theory. The big bang is not particularly difficult to apprehend and comprehend. The universe had to start somewhere and somehow. The evidence for the origin of the universe is fairly abundant, and it points to the notion that it was all once a singularity. I'm going to try this in an extremely simplified way... ... Hubble's law was an observational basis for the metric expansion of space. When the redshift of astronomical objects are measured it shows that everything in the Universe is moving away, that the universe is expanding. The universe is uniformly expanding everywhere. If the Universe is uniformly expanding, then if you work back logically there has to be, a point where it was tiny, a point where it was a singularity... A point where it began. ... This leads into a second piece of observational evidence I wish to give. Galactic evolution and distribution. Light takes a long time to reach us from other galaxies, it only moves a 300,000Km/s. So whenever you look up into the night sky you are seeing stars as they were thousands, if not millions, of years ago. When we observe galaxies that are billions of light years away we see something strange, they are quite primitive. When we observe a galaxy billions of light years away, they look far less developed than ours. The further we look back in time, the less developed they are. This shows that galaxy's are evolving, and we can observe the rate at which they evolve. this too shows the Universe had an origin. This image demonstrates the evolution that I'm talking about...
... Now onto the point you asked about, Cosmic microwave background radiation or CMBR. When the Big bang occurred at the beginning of time, photons were created and absorbed en masse. However, when some time passed the universe stopped producing and destroying these photons. These photons can now be observed as electromagnetic radiation, more specifically the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. We have observed this leftover microwave radiation that was caused by the big bang. When you detune your TV and see the static, 1% of what you are seeing is the leftover microwave radiation form the big bang. This is an extremely simplified explanation however.
I hope this has helped you understand the big bang little better ... As for you questioning science and seeming like being ignorant. It's not the questioning the science that makes you seem ignorant or entertaining an idea that isn't accpeted, quite frankly that is welcomed it is almost the definition of science to be honest. Anyone who questions science in a proper and respectful way is a friend of mine. However, last time I explained CMBR to you you replied with "THAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111my god, you really have done it this time, highway star. you almost made me shit myself after this post!". But seeing as you admitted you didn't know about CMBR just, so I'm assuming that you didn't read my explanation a few weeks ago at all, and just skipped it and proceeded to take the piss out of me... That's why people think you are ignorant. The Universe had to begin somewhere and the evidence suggests that the big bang was the most likely origin. If you want to suggest alternate theories that also incorporates or debunk the evidence found, fine, please do so. But don't just take the piss, that is not questioning, it is trolling.
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hey, thanks for the explanation. i barely skimmed over it, because i have no time right now, but im gonna read it as soon as i get back from work.
also, i knew it was going to be a troll post, i just knew it. i didnt look back to the post i made that you were referencing, but i thought it had a pretty high chance of being a troll post. i was definately trolling, and i said it to push your buttons and make you respond. sorry about that, i was probably drunk or stoned or something.
