Did 'The Big Bang' actually go 'bang'?

[WilliamPitt]

I thought there was no sound in space.

[eyesroll]

1. Only because it's a vacuum, and sound can't travel in a vacuum

The sound's there -- it just can't travel (so does it make a sound? hmmm....).

However, if there were all of these densely-packed particles around the Big Bang, then it's not a vacuum, is it?

(I'm making this up as I'm going along -- how am I doing?)

[7th_Sephiroth]

19. perhaps

there was dense matter and the explosion probably created the vaccume

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. No

and it wasn't really a big bang...it was pretty much a dry hump.

[Earth_First]

3. LOL

thanks for that much needed laugh!

[Coventina]

7. The early universe looked at the ceiling.....

and thought, "That was it?!?!?"


(shameless theft of material)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. *best Peggy Lee*

Is that all there is?

[Dudley_DUright]

9. An amazingly astute cosmological perspective!

Actually the term "Big Bang" was coined by Fred Hoyle, who was an opponent of the idea (being instead in favor of the "steady state" hypothesis). Imaging a very hot very dense soup of elementary particles (first quarks and leptons and later larger conglomerations of particles like protons and neutrons, then atoms...) getting progressively cooler and less dense. Remember what the movie "Aliens" taught us, "In space, no one can hear you scream".

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. You make scientific fact sound SO erotic!

:evilgrin: :hi:

[moof]

18. Testing another bit of conjecture

+ =

[Dudley_DUright]

22. It seems

I have double denied being a fractal thief (or something like that). :silly:

[moof]

26. LOL, no just trying out, "2 wrongs don't make a right"

[Snoggera]

4. I think it went "pathoot"

but there wasn't a tree there to hear it, so it's all just conjecture on my part.

[Kellanved]

5. You can listen to it and decide for yourself

here
:
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~dmw8f/sounds/cdromfiles/index.php

:hi:

[m-jean03]

14. Thanks, that's awesome! (nt)

[benburch]

6. Actually...

There was sound in the early universe... The photons were so dense that they behaved like a gas, and there were waves in it, and hence "sound". This sound moved matter with it, and at some point that matter was frozen in place by the continued inflation of the universe. (At a critical density, the photons stopped behaving as a gas.) This was the origin of the concentrations of matter that allowed galaxies to form.

So, in some real sense, we were made from sound...

[tigereye]

24. that's a neat explanation

[Khephra]

8. I was there at the time

and I swear it went "wagga wagga wagga".

:evilgrin:

[WilliamPitt]

10. Which means it's still going wagga wagga wagga

The sound of the cosmos. :)

[Khephra]

11. Now the "Dry Hump"...

That was the sound of one hand clapping.

:evilgrin:

[salinen]

15. If you multiply the sound

of my dog farting by a trillion trillion, that is the exact sound the Big Bang made. Any other easy questions?

[Snoggera]

16. With the power of 10,000 butterfly sneezes

it's been said.

[dr.strangelove]

17. I WAS THERE - IT WAS A LOUD BANG

Very difficult to hear myself think over the big bang.

[unblock]

20. um, there WAS no "space" in the universe

at the moment of the big bang, there was only massive amounts of energy and matter in a singularly small point. "space" didn't form until the universe had expanded enough to permit matterlessness in between clumps of matter.

so, there was "sound" in the sense that there was matter that carried reverberations from the big bang.

[Deja Q]

21. Well, if it did, it left behind a really gross mess...

and no paper towels to blot it up with... :D

[jpgray]

23. No. In fact, onomatopoeia did not exist yet (nt)

[JitterbugPerfume]

25. I think

it was more like "oh shit " if I remember correctly

It was a long time ago