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I'd have to look it up but as I understand it the nearest understanding we have is that it is a consequence of the uncertainty principle, whereby if you know one quantity the other is unknown; and in this case can cause an eplosion.
Now you need to ask why there is the ability for an uncertainty principle to exist.
Now you need to ask why there is the ability for an uncertainty principle to exist.
Not unless you have a working knowledge regarding quantum theory. But in a nutshell, as I posted, there are some pairs of measurelements that are tied together in that the more accurately you know one the less accurately you know the other. It indicates that our common sense view of the world isn't exactly right, but near enough to live by.
http://www.google.co....Principle+for+dummies
http://www.google.co....Principle+for+dummies
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So for you the definition is an all-powerful sentient being of some sort. I've believed different things at various times of my life, rarely dismissing the possibility altogether. At present I think the evidence of a sentient being is lacking, but absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. But you'd be better off posting that sort of discussion in "Body & Soul" rather than "Science".
The word 'explosion' is one I would avoid for the Big Bang. It was a sudden coming into existence of all matter/energy (same thing, according to Einstein's theory of relativity: E=mc2) and space-time itself. This is very different to a chemical explosion. This 'hot space' then rapidly expanded, and is still doing so.
Ask 100 scientists what caused the Big Bang and you'll get many different answers. The most frequent one is 'we don't yet know'. Many of the current possible theories are fiendishly difficult for non-mathematical thinkers to understand, and most are not (yet) testable, so making them philosophical and not scientific. Reading up on quantum theory would be the starting point to understanding these.
So there is still room for a religious view fitting in with our current scientific knowledge - God triggered it. However, the concept of 'God' and arguments for the existence of something beyond the physical world seem to have changed continuously to keep up with our expanding knowledge, so it might as well be replaced with "stuff we can't yet explain".
Ask 100 scientists what caused the Big Bang and you'll get many different answers. The most frequent one is 'we don't yet know'. Many of the current possible theories are fiendishly difficult for non-mathematical thinkers to understand, and most are not (yet) testable, so making them philosophical and not scientific. Reading up on quantum theory would be the starting point to understanding these.
So there is still room for a religious view fitting in with our current scientific knowledge - God triggered it. However, the concept of 'God' and arguments for the existence of something beyond the physical world seem to have changed continuously to keep up with our expanding knowledge, so it might as well be replaced with "stuff we can't yet explain".
Basically nobody knows where the big bang came from, if it came from anywhere. Just as nobody knows where god(if he exists) came from. As there is a lack of evidence of the existence of god it has been very difficult to measure him or do any experiments to ascertain his age. If we could ascertain his age we could work out which came first,god or the big bang. wouldn't that be interesting! As it is we have to assume god doesn't exist as he doesn't interact with the world we know(and can measure).
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