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You're understanding of the Big Bang is far too close to a conventional explosion. In reality, it wasn't similar at all. The Big Bang is less about particles flying away from a single point and more about the actual space expanding. Imagine a bunch of dots on a deflated balloon. Now, inflate the balloon. The dots will spread apart, but it's not the same as all of them simply flying away from each other.
Now let's look at this balloon again, shall we? If this balloon is a perfect sphere and expands evenly then the particles will indeed move out in a straight line. Right? Because we have RED SHIFT on many of the stars, this would indicate that the universe is still expanding at near light speed. This would also indicate that the expansion was even faster at the very beginning.
Now let's look at this balloon again. Imagine the spherical balloon expanding at near light speed , evenly from the center point. I would call this an EXPLOSION. It is a matter of semantics.
BTW I have read a few good SECULAR books on cosmology since my graduation from formal education. However I admit it has been over 10 years so I'll need to break them open again. "GRAVITY'S LENSE" is one of them.
Dan Laskowski
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