WHAT WE KNOW WITH CERTAINTY ABOUT THE FIRST SECOND AFTER THE “BIG BANG”.
WHAT WE KNOW WITH CERTAINTY ABOUT THE FIRST SECOND AFTER THE “BIG BANG”. What do we know about the Big Bang? In sum, Pomeroy quotes Caltech astrophysicist Sean Caroll: “We don’t have any idea what happened at the purported moment of the Big Bang,”
What we do know a lot about is what happened in the first second after what we call the “Big Bang”. Pomeroy says: “Boatloads of evidence and observation support the notion that the entire Universe was once unfathomably dense and hot, and confined to a vastly smaller area. Moreover, it expanded and cooled into everything that is today.” Caroll agrees: “The Big Bang model…the general idea that the universe has been expanding from a hot, dense early state, that’s 100 percent true…”