it gets better though, the Big Bang is only half of the theory (the famous half), the other bit is called the Big Shrink, and the theory states that all the particles in the universe contract into something smaller than a billion trillionth of an atom (or something stupid like that) and then blew up and expand, creating the universe, which then expands up to an uncertain point, at which point it shrinks down to a tiny dot and the whole thing begins again. Someone worked out that we were one our fifth or sixth 'Big Bang' but how I've no idea.
Also, as the whole universe was created from the bang, there are no 'sides' to it, we are technically in the middle of it, and for all intents and purposes it is still going on, as the universe is still expanding.