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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Joshua Bell: [qb] Tell me you didn't just ask that... *sigh* The Big Bang wasn't an explosion in space, it was an explosion *of* space. 1D analogy: today we live on an expanding rubber ruler; the Milky Way is at the 1cm mark, Andromeda is at the 3cm mark, etc. The ruler is gradually stretching out as time passes; in another billion years they will be 2.5cm apart. Looking back in time, they get closer together. At the Big Bang, the ruler had shrunk to zero length so there was no space between those points. (You have to imagine the ruler has no ends, though. You can pretend the ruler is bent into a loop if that helps.) There is no "middle" of the expansion - it all expands uniformally. The 2D analogy is usually a balloon, with galaxies being on the surface. It is a 2D world so there is just the surface - east/west and north/south, but no in/out. As the balloon inflates the galaxies on the surface get farther apart since space itself is expanding, but there is no point in the flat universe of the surface that is the center of the expansion. [/qb][/QUOTE]That's crazy, Josh: everyone knows that God made the universe 6000 years ago, and that carbon dating, astrophysics and rational thought are tools of Satan. Also, the universe revolves around Earth and it is flat. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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