alt Hacker NewsI've never liked big bang as a concept. It sounds cartoonish for me like geocentric model. It's way too convenient that entire space evolved from a single point long time ago. It sounds like a child story in comparison to everything else we can prove so far.
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mellosouls • today at 8:51 AM
Cartoonish/childish: That's why it's called "the Big Bang", it was a mocking reference coined by Fred Hoyle, a leading opponent of the idea.
Starlevel004 • today at 7:44 AM
> It sounds cartoonish for me like heliocentric model.
Do you mean geocentric?
> It's way too convenient that entire space evolved from a single point long time ago.
It didn't evolve from a single point.
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When scientists say “the universe” in the context of the big bang, it is usually shorthand for the temporal-spacetime envelope that we’ve been able to observe and make inferences within, the observational limits being traceable to that era.
Scientific evidence has not established that nothing existed before the big bang.
Children are perfectly capable of understanding that there are limits to what we have been able to obtain data about, so they don’t really need us to mix scientific understanding with simplifying dogma.