The Big Bang – the Universe
It is hard to believe that the universe is over fifteen billion years old, that it was created with a large explosion in space. Then it took millions of years to create galaxies, and eventually the stars we see in our sky today. Science is simply magnificent as we learn more and more about our world.
Scientist are continuously searching to clarify their information about how the earth came to be, or for that matter how was the universe created. Well it is believed that it started about fifteen billion years ago, with a large explosion, which we have come to call the BIG BANG!
There was just a vast amounts of empty space, with lots of energy and as it gathered into a small, concentrated area, causing the temperature to raise, far beyond what we could ever imagine, hotter than the sun. Then with all that energy and heat in one place, it was the, “bang” the explosion occurred.
If your take a concentrated amount of matter and energy; heat it up beyond your wildest imagination, an explosion would occur, such as in the case of a car blowing up, too much energy and matter in the same spot.
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When a car explodes, the debris is thrown up and outward, just like the Big Bang explosion, except what we see now, is something that occurred fifteen billion years ago, because a lot of it is just so far away.
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With the explosion of hydrogen and helium gas clouds formed and eventually separated into the different galaxies that exist today, and slowly stars began to appear. Even as we speak stars are being formed while others are dying. When a group of these stars develop within a large interstellar cloud, it is called a nebula. Within the each cloud of gas, a rotating movement begins add a little gravity field a pulling sensation inward With all this in place, and the speed of rotation increases and the temperature rises, causing other reaction different from the original BANG>
If the mass of energy was large the star created will be warm with a bluish hue to it, while a small mass will not heat up, so it will create a cooler star that will appear orange. This process of making stars in not one that can be recreated, it takes so much to time and energy to cause such an explosion, then it takes another million years for the gases to contract becoming very dense, to create the senario to make of a star. Within the center of the nebula the heat has to build up to a point, where it can break away, this is called a proto-star, and it is bigger than our entire solar system. I cannot even image how big space is, if one proto-star is larger than our entire solar system.
It is within the proto-star the planets begin to form, but it still takes millions of years, with so many other explosions occuring. One of these proto-star as it rotates brings in, more energy and matter, causing it core to heat up and become more concentrated. Over time the atoms within the center begin to collide, forming helium, which over time releases large amount of energy, and another explosion occurs. It is the helium gas that comes to the surface that gives a star the ability to shine so brightly.
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So very simply put, the Big Bang came as a result of high temperatures and a lot of energy that formed, and exploded, then it creates a gravity pull inward. As the energy and matter becomes concentrated and heats up, the hydrogen atoms collides forming one reaction after another; with the final product being called a sun. 
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It is truly amazing to look at, and truly awesome on a clear night to see the thousands of stars that are up there; high in the sky.
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11 Responses to “The Big Bang – the Universe”
On August 17, 2009 at 8:11 am
Well written with much food for thought. Like it!
On August 17, 2009 at 9:13 am
A very informative and interesting piece. I had never given it much thought before.
Christine
On August 17, 2009 at 9:26 am
Throws light on lot of scientific facts. thank u
On August 17, 2009 at 9:37 am
you have given us new facts about this Big-bang theory that most Christian denominations completely disregard.
On August 17, 2009 at 8:56 pm
13.7 billion years ago, not 15, sorry.
On August 17, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Isn’t our universe amazing?
On August 18, 2009 at 11:06 am
If everyone would just sit back and take a look at what God has really given to us they might think differently about life!!! Thanks for the share!
On August 20, 2009 at 6:16 pm
This article isn’t really terribly accurate… the biggest point that they got wrong is that it wasn’t a concentration of matter/energy AT some point in space, it was SPACE ITSELF (or possibly the entire spacetime) that was concentrated into that point. I must stress that there is a vast difference between the two. Space/the vacuum isn’t an area of “nothingness”, it is an entity of its own, fluctuating chaotically at the quantum level. Just like how the universe is said to be expanding: it isn’t that all matter is moving away from each other into previously unoccupied space, it is that the space itself between all matter is inflating. Think of dots on a balloon that is continuously being inflated.
On August 20, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Actually, I take that back, it was definitely the entire 4 dimensional spacetime that was compressed into the singularity. Something interesting to research and think about is the multiverse hypothesis; that our universe is just one of infinitely many with different qualities and constants embedded into a higher-dimensional manifold, and that the structure of this supposed multiverse could be considered analogous to the vacuum and its quantum fluctuations… a fractal multiverse.
On August 25, 2009 at 5:26 pm
very informative piece…
On September 11, 2009 at 11:42 am
Theories which are to be digested but while always holding a reservation until proof is decisive. However, nice presentation.
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