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Quote by: Devout_Muslim Some particles exploded and mysteriously we all evolved from rocks?
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An explosion from a missile or a bomb, perhaps. However, we are not talking about your typical explosion. The Big Bang is more accurately characterized as a rapid expansion. The universe was, essentially, a compressed ball of energy, and thus extremely hot. The rapid expansion and intense heat early on generally leads to the impression of a huge explosion, or a "big bang". What exactly caused the expansion is unknown. It represents one of the long standing problems that physicists are, at present, unable to explain due to a limited understanding of the mechanics of gravity. Gravity is important because the Big Bang is theorized to have begun as a gravitational singularity, where the curvature of space/time is effectively infinite as well as the density of the universe.
What is not being called into question is that
some sort of explosion has occurred. Observations like Hubble's law, and the cosmic background radiation detected by NASA COBE satellites and further analyzed by the more recent Wilkinson probe, provide sufficent evidence that it has.
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Quote by: Devout_Muslim Where did these particles come from?
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Light elements formed first from protons and neutrons colliding and dissevering, until the universe cooled enough to permit the formation of heavier elements. This event is known as the Big Bang nucleosynthesis. For a more in-depth look at this event, go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis