Tuesday, December 20, 2016

cosmology - Whats left at the center of the Universe after Big bang?


If you consider big bang. According to that What's left at the center of universe where the Big bang occured?



Answer



There's a very common misconception that the Big Bang happened at a point like a bomb going off. It doesn't help that almost ever TV documentary on the subject represents the Big Bang in this way. Explaining what actually happened is hard without going into the Maths, but here's an explanation I gave taken from (of all places) the Science Fiction Stack Exchange:


Imagine drawing out a grid with spacing of 1 light year. Although obviously we can't do this, you can easily imagine putting the Earth at (0, 0), Alpha Centauri at (4.37, 0) and plotting out all the stars on this grid. The key thing is that because the universe is infinite this grid is infinite i.e. there is no point where you can't extend the grid any further.


Now wind time back to 7 billion years after the big bang, i.e. about halfway back. Because the universe shrinks as we wind time back, our grid now has a spacing of half a light year, but it's still infinite - there is still no edge to it.


Now wind back to 0.0000000001 seconds after the big bang. There's no special significance to that number; it's just meant to be extremely small. Our grid now has a very small spacing, but it's still infinite. No matter how close we get to the big bang we still have a infinite grid filling all of space. You may have heard pop science programmes describing the big bang as "happening everywhere" and this is what they mean. The universe didn't shrink down to a point at the big bang, it's just that the spacing between any two randomly selected spacetime points shrank down to zero.


Incidentally, if you try to calculate the size of the universe at the big bang itself you get zero times infinity i.e. zero spacing of the grid but it's still infinitely big. We call points like these singularities because we can't tell what happened there.


So to back to your question, what was left behind by the Big bang is, well, me and you and everything we can see when we look into the night sky. Because the Big Bang happened everywhere we are all relics of the Big Bang.


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