If you have a few minutes, you might want to read this most interesting
page that indicates general relativity does not support the idea of the
big bang;
http://www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/anthol/bang.html
The Big Bang wasn't really big. Nor was it really a bang. In fact, the
event that created the universe and everything in it was a very
different kind of phenomenon than most people--or, at least, most
nonphysicists--imagine.
Even the name "Big Bang" originally was a put-down cooked up by a
scientist who didn't like the concept when it was first put forth. He
favored the idea that the universe had always existed in a much more
dignified and fundamentally unchanging, steady state.
But the name stuck, and with it has come the completely wrong impression
that the event was like an explosion and that the universe is expanding
today because the objects in it are being flung apart like fragments of
a detonated bomb.
Virtually every basic aspect of this intuitive image for the Big Bang
(we ARE stuck with the name) is incorrect. To understand why, you need
to understand Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. Or, at
least, you need to have a sense of it. That may sound daunting, but
general relativity is the most revolutionary scientific advance of the
20th century, and we all ought to acquire some feeling for it before
the century ends.
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