No BANG! in the Big Bang

The children's Introduction is here

         

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1. When helping your children you may appreciate insight regarding the event itself and any model of what it was or may have been.
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3. The Big Bang is not an explosion of matter moving outward to fill an empty universe. Instead, space itself expands with time everywhere and increases the physical distances between moving points. 
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5. In other words, the Big Bang is not an explosion in space, but rather an expansion of space.
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7. The Big Bang theory is model of the observable universe.  A scientific model is a physical and/or representation of a system of ideas, events or processes. 
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9. Scientists seek to identify and understand patterns in our world by drawing on their scientific knowledge to offer explanations that enable the patterns to be predicted.
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11. Nothing exploded in the Big Bang. Instead, the Big Bang is described by a hot, dense state that simply expands and cools. That's it: no explosion of any type.
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13. In the Big Bang, space was filled with light. A fraction of a second after the event, the universe was over a million trillion times smaller than an atom. It was also hot: a septillion (one followed by 24 zeroes) times hotter than the centre of the sun.
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15. Images of the Big Bang which head the page are usually suspect. 
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17. Image 1 shows stars shooting out at the first millionth of its tiny time.  Wrong!  
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21. Image 2 shows planets emerging likewise which is wrong + milllions of !!!!!!!.

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5. Snapshot from a computer simulation of the formation of large-scale structures in the universe, showing a patch of 100 million light-years and the resulting motion of galaxies flowing toward the highest mass concentration in the centre. 
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7. Let's face it: however eminent any astrophysicist, astronomer etc is, nobody would be prepared to stand up in the highest court and swear that this or that actually happened during the Big Bang!
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9. We continue to be bombarded with images like this:
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13. Another "let's face it".  At the time of the Big Bang, imagine an astronaut from another universe is, say, so many thousands of miles away.  What will he/she hear?
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15. Nothing!  Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum.  Sound waves are travelling vibrations of particles in media such as air, water or metal. 
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17. It stands to reason that they cannot travel through empty space, where there are no atoms or molecules to vibrate.

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