The Beginning Of Space And Time Itself

As the symphony of existence prepared to take its first breath, the universe held its collective
anticipation, poised on the precipice of an eternal dawn. We live in the Universe with infinite
possibilities. These infinite possibilities include the beginning of it. Was it the end of the other one for
the newer one? Or is it connected to the giants of the space the Black Holes in anyway? Space is
interesting in its own way.

It is said that "From the singularity's whispered sigh emerged the genesis of time, unfurling its tendrils
through the uncharted realms of space." This refers to the initial state of the Universe described as
singularity most people connected it to black holes as these space giants are so powerful that even light
can’t escape it. It is a point that is under the study of astrophysicists that is said to be the point of
infinite density and unpredictable laws. The time in sentence suggests the Big Bang that before that
there might not be the existence of time. Some Scientists suggests that it is a possibility that there might
be multiple Big Bang explosions. Now since the beginning of our Universe it is expanding faster than
speed of light as suggested by Edwin Hubble.

Let’s start our research from the Big Bang theory:-

If God caused the Big Bang, then, the universe had a beginning. It might not have had a beginning in
time (the universe could be eternal), but it must have had a beginning in the order of existence (thereby
providing an answer to the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"). If matter has a
beginning, science cannot reach that far. The laws of the universe only become applicable at Planck
Time and Planck Space.

Greek philosophers assumed that the world, the universe, the cosmos, or nature as a whole, existed in
some form from eternity, that is, infinitely into the past, and that the basic stuff of the universe is
uncreated, everlasting, self-sufficient, and indestructible. Twentieth-century cosmologists produced a
plethora of astonishing discoveries about the universe as a whole. Our universe has not existed forever
after all; it was created between 8 and 20 billion years ago. . Late in 1994, some data from Hubble
observations suggested that the universe may be only 8 to 12 billion years old, in which case the age of
some stars seems to be greater than that of the universe-perhaps twice as great! Still, most available
data indicates a 10 to 18 billion-year-age. Exact timing is not essential for identifying the ultimate cause
of the Big Bang; what really matters is the well-founded scientific consensus that our world came into
being somewhere between 8 and 20 billion years ago. For this Big Accident Cosmology, the mass/density
of the universe will be important for deciding whether the universe actually had a cause.

Quantum Cosmologists trace the origin of the universe back to a tiny fraction of a second after the
initiating explosion emerged from near nothingness, but they reject the initial singularity. Momentous
developments occurred in the first milliseconds after creation, including the arrival of time, space, and
all the laws of physics.
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Our team conducted an interview with a well-known physicist Edwin Hubble who is also the person who
suggested the Big Bang Theory. So without any delay let’s start the interview.

Interviewer: It’s a lovely and shiny day and to make it even brighter we have Sir Edwin Hubble with us.
Thank You Sir for giving us your important time

Edwin Hubble: Thank you for having me.

Interviewer: To start off, could you provide a brief overview of the Big Bang Theory for our audience?

Edwin Hubble: Certainly, The big bang is how astronomers explain the way the universe began. It is the
idea that the universe began as just a single point, then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is
right now—and it is still stretching!

Interviewer: Your work on Redshift Galaxies played a crucial role in making of this model can you explain
about it?

Edwin Hubble: Only since the early 1920s have we known with assurance of the existence of other
galaxies, profuse with stars. Before powerful telescopes were built early in this century, astronomers
could not see any individual stars beyond our own galaxy. Beginning early in the twentieth century,
astronomers employed much more powerful telescopes to probe the distant universe. In 1924,I used
the 100- inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California, confirmed that the nebulae contain
individual stars and that giant galaxies of stars exist beyond the Milky Way, our local galaxy. I also
noticed that these nebulae were drifting away from us.

Interviewer: What do you mean by drifting away from us?

Edwin Hubble: In 1924 I established that most galaxies are moving away from us; and by 1929 I realized
that they do so in a law like manner. They move away from us and from one another at a uniform and
calculable rate, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread, or dots on the surface of an inflating balloon.
According to Hubble's law of uniform expansion, in a homogeneous universe, galaxies move away from
us and from one another at speeds proportional to their distance. Improved contemporary estimates of
cosmic distances and velocities differ significantly from the results of Hubble's initial computations. We
now know that the galaxies will double their distances from one another and from us in less than ten
billion years.

Interviewer: Can you please enlighten us with how the technological advancements supported the
theory?

Edwin Hubble: Most astronomy relies on the detection of photons. (To a much lesser extent there are
particle detections including neutrinos and cosmic rays of various types).

So observations are made and it is inherently a passive process. One has to make observations
repeatedly, with different instruments or telescopes for statistical refinement and confirmations.
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And then one uses theoretical models with multiple parameters in an attempt to match the
observations in a statistically significant way.

The models are refined and can be made more complex as more and more data is obtained.

Cosmological observations are highly consistent with a Lambda Cold Dark Matter Big Bang model
consistent with general relativity for a homogeneous, isotropic universe on the largest scales. (Lambda is
the dark energy term and cold dark matter is non-relativistic).

As I have written elsewhere the Big Bang is not a theory but rather a set of observations including the
cosmic microwave background, the observed Hubble recession of galaxies, and the abundances of light
elements and ages of the oldest stars. All indicate a universe just less than 14 billion years and that was
in a very hot dense state initially.

Interviewer: Thank You Sir for giving us your time.

Edwin Hubble: Thank You for having me.

This was an interview with Sir Edwin Hubble. The Next on the show is Sir Stephen Hawking but before
that let me brief you about his theory of “A brief history of time.”