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Old 07-23-2007, 01:55 AM
Gugel Gugel is offline
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Default Re: Ask Gugel Anything About the Big Bang

Here's some food for thought.

4% of the Universe is observable to us. In other words, it's made up of ordinary matter/energy.
22% of the Universe is dark matter.
74% of the Universe is dark energy.

Also, to clear up a common misconception: the Big Bang did not start from a tiny point. Well, it did, but probably not the way your thinking about it. There is no special direction in the Universe. There is no central point from which the Big Bang began and expanded outwards. The Universe started EVERYWHERE at the same time. The Big Bang was just as much here as it was billions of light years away. The whole Universe was just condensed into a very small volume (infinitesimally small) so everything was infinitely close together. So, was it a point? Yes. But it doesn't make sense to think of it from outside or on the edge of the point.
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