• Question: if you believe in the big bang, what caused it to happen?

    Asked by pasha2 to Indi, Jarv, John, Ken, Vicky on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Jarvist Moore Frost

      Jarvist Moore Frost answered on 15 Mar 2012:


      The Big Bang was the start of both Space and Time. So it’s very difficult to even talk about what happened ‘before’ the Big Bang, as time didn’t exist, so our causal understanding (that things should follow one another… that some things cause other events) of how the universe works doesn’t really apply either!

      “First there was nothing, and then it exploded.” Is actually a pretty good way of thinking about it I think 😀

    • Photo: Vicky Young

      Vicky Young answered on 15 Mar 2012:


      Jarvis covered the first big bang theory…. so here is a little bout the other big bang theory!

      The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007.

      The show is centered on five characters: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, two physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech); Penny, a blonde waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon’s equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny’s social skills and common sense. Three other supporting characters have also been promoted to starring roles: Leslie Winkle, a physicist colleague at Caltech and, at different times, a lover of both Leonard and Howard; Bernadette Rostenkowski, Howard’s fiancée, who is a microbiologist and part-time waitress alongside Penny; and Amy Farrah Fowler, a neurobiologist who joins the group after being matched to Sheldon on a dating website.

    • Photo: John Prytherch

      John Prytherch answered on 18 Mar 2012:


      “First there was nothing, and then it exploded.”

      I like that!

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