Big Bang Bingo

I realize that I've banged this subject around several times, but there is a few interesting things that I think need discussed. The main goal of cosmologists is to discover how the Bing Bang event came to be.

As you must know, the Big Bang is the event 13.8 billion years ago that created space, matter and time that become the universe we know and love. But, how did this momentous event occur. This is the most important question in cosmology.

Astronomers have been able to recreate what happened at the time of Big Bang down to one trillionth of one trillionth of one trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, but getting down to the exact instant or, more importantly, what happened before the Big Bang is as yet not achieved.

Physicists have determined that in the tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang a primordial soup of particles formed from a very hot ball of energy. These particles eventually cooled in a hundred thousand years to create hydrogen gas. However, during that tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, an expansion in space and time occurred at much higher than the speed of light. Trying to find evidence for this expansion is another holy grail of cosmology.

The next step in the search for how we got here is to find out how the first stars ignited in a hundred million years after the Big Bang. The trouble with actually observing this is the fact that these stars formed in a fog of hydrogen that obscured their inception. However, it is possible to see these first stars by observing the microwave anomalies in the cosmic microwave background map of the universe.

Seeing what happened in a microsecond after the Big Bang is achieved in colliders. One such test was done by colliding gold nuclei at near the speed of light. This created a primordial soup of particles that could be traced to determine what existed in that microsecond after the Big Bang at an, assumed temperature of billions of degrees. The particular mix of particles is what physicists are trying to unravel in an attempt to understand what exactly happened at the instant of the Big Bang, which was at an unimaginably high temperature.

It turns out that cosmologists now believe that our universe is not unique, that there are many others that were formed from energy that already existed outside of time. This is consistent with my idea of how creation occurred. The one difference is that they don't acknowledge a creator, and I do. I believe that scientists will get back to the instant of the Big Bang, but I believe that uncovering what existed before that instant is beyond science.

It all comes down to cause and effect. I don't like the latest idea that the Big Bang was just a cosmic accident. I believe it was planned. Otherwise, we have no real purpose for existing.

Thanks for reading.