150 questions linked to/from Did the Big Bang happen at a point?
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### Does the universe have a center? [duplicate]

If the big bang was the birth of everything, and the big bang was an event in the sense that it had a location and a time (time 0), wouldn't that mean that our universe has a center? Where was the ...
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### Why is the singularity of the Big Bang not considered to be the center of the Universe? [duplicate]

If the universe is expanding, then at some time in the past, it must have started from a single point but why this point is not the center of the Universe. Just like the singularity of black holes is ...
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### Can space be created or destroyed [duplicate]

Wikipedia says It appears that space was created in the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago This seems a little off to me: can we say something has been created if there was no before it had ...
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### Is space itself expanding or is it just momentum from the Big Bang carrying things apart? [duplicate]

So, we observe that galaxies are moving apart (on average) and the further away from us they are the faster they are moving away from us. If space was expanding that would explain this. However, I ...
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### The infinitely dense point from which the universe allegedly originated - the universe must expand, right? [duplicate]

This is all based on some thoughts this article gave me. Assertions The big bang theory is currently accepted theory about the origin of the universe Infinitely dense implies some kind of material (...
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### What was the size of universe at big bang [duplicate]

While self studying cosmology as well as reading around I can't find a satisfactory answer to this question. My thinking is that in principle universe could have started already infinite or as a thiny ...
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### Why does the early universe look so big in a telescope? [duplicate]

As we look into the Deep Field, we see the Hubble photos of early galaxies up to only $400$ millions years old: Wikipedia: List of the most distant astronomical objects Because there is no center of ...
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### “Before” the Big Bang was the Universe really compressed into a mathematical point? [duplicate]

A couple of weeks ago a teacher of mine (I'm taking mathematics) was giving a final inspiring lecture about how fundamental Math is to every possible universe. During the lecture though, he said that ...
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### What lies at the very edge of the expanding universe? [duplicate]

We all know that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate and it might appear much like a soap bubble. That is where the phrase dark energy whose essence is unknown and which is thought to ...
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### Why did the big bang explode if there is no oxygen in space? [duplicate]

If there is no oxygen in space, where the super dense singular object was suspended, then why did it explode because this reaction needs oxygen?
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### How can the universe by infinite when it has known start and finite time since? [duplicate]

Just watched the 'How Big is the Universe?' TV program and it indicated that the universe is believed to be infinite in size. They used an approach involving measuring the internal angles of triangles....
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### Where is the universe expanding from? [duplicate]

It seems to be quite a common question to ask "what is the universe expanding into?" However I want to ask "where is the universe expanding from?" Is there a "centre of expansion" of our universe ...
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### Is there a contradiction between isotropy and the Big Bang? [duplicate]

Disclaimer: I'm not asking whether the Big Bang happened at a point. I'm asking whether the fact that the universe is isotropic and that the Big Bang happened contradict each other. To be honest I am ...