From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 22:27:45 MDT
Joao Magalhaes:
>Thanks.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be cross.
Science questions are fine and good, I don't even mind writing the
same answers two or three times. I mostly objected in a knee-jerk
way (I'm sorry) to your comment that Anders had an error. If you don't
know a topic, which your question showed me, it works much better to learn
about it by putting aside one's pride, and letting the curiosity
part run unencumbered instead.
The answer to the 'Where did the Big Bang happen' (which is the same
as 'where is the center of the expansion'?) is Nowhere and Everywhere.
The Cosmological Principle is the foundation of these ideas, which
says that no point in the Universe is special. Space and Time
themselves were created at the instant of the Big Bang, unlike
conventional explosion where the material flies through existing
space. If we take any point in the current Universe and trace back
its history, it would start out at the explosion point, and so then
the Big Bang happened everywhere.
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