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The Energy of the Big Bang

BY Kurt HansonThu Jan 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM
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The Force, the energy released at the moment of the Big Bang expanded out and created a volume of space at the same time it also began to transformed itself into a zillion different elementary particles, fermions and bosons if you will. Eventually over time the raw energy that these elementary particles possessed transformed into other larger types of matter, the atoms and molecules. Billions of years pass and certain molecules on a planet deviated or strayed from turning into the common type of inanimate matter such as dust and rock, and instead began to form into the "constituents of life." After billions of years, on one particular planet we know of there are a proliferation of animate objects; so many different forms of life exist on the planet Earth.

 

When I make reference to the energy of the Big Bang, perhaps give thought of touching an electrical outlet, and feel the raw, naked power of force energy, though the energy and power felt at electrical socket is miniscule compared to what was released at the Big Bang. Think of the raw, naked energy at the moment of the Big Bang, and this energy inside the space of the universe is all there is in existence inside the early universe. A volume of space and a huge amount of energy; these two things are all that's in existence inside the early universe. And I try to imagine how this force and energy could somehow cause life to form; to cause it into existence. It seems absurd to imagine that the raw, naked energy at the moment of the Big Bang, that this simple energy alone was responsible for creating life as we know it on Earth after billions of years. I could just as well write that the same power and energy felt at the electrical socket could somehow create life if left alone and all by itself.

 

Something has directed, and may still be directing that raw naked energy at the moment of the Big Bang. Some "thing" is responsible for causing all that chaotic energy and force at the moment of the Big Bang to take the direction it took to form into the atoms and molecules in the first place, and then eventually to cause certain atoms and molecules to become rocks and certain other atoms and molecules to turn animate. Science has not revealed how, but energy alone could not have been responsible.

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