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Well...no one knows what happened at the time of the BB, if it happened at all!

To start with the BB theory is the most accepted theory of creation in science today (I'm a physics student sweatdrop I'm currently writing my thesis in theoretical general relativity sweatdrop sweatdrop ). however, it is not proven (that is VERY hard to do so) and a number of "fringe theories" do exist, but have no managed as yet (if ever) to convince the general scientific population of their validity.
Not to mention there are other very interesting questions (at least to us! smile ) that concern todays physicists that are somewhat more easily answered and whose answers might actually lead to answering the BB question.

For instance:
-why is matter predominant over antimatter?
This is interesting, because in the laboratory matter and
antimatter are created simultaneously. So what happened
to the antimatter that was created along with the matter
at the BB?

-Why does the Universe seem to be accelerating in its expansion?
Gravity holds the Universe together, so it is a attracting
force. And it has no repelling component like, for instance
,magnetism does. In a magnet you have north and south
poles, right? north attracts the south and vica-versa. But
north and north, and south and south repel each other.
Gravity doesn't have two "poles", only one, so there isn't
anything to account for the accelerating expansion. There
also is a movement that says it really isn't accelerating at
all, but it seems to do so, because our measurements are
so imprecise!

-Where does mass come from?
This may seem like a very simple question, but it isn't!
"Dummed down", if you've ever heard of a mysterious little
partcle called a Higgs bozon, then this little blighter is
thought to be the answer. Theoretical physicists believe
the "evaporation" of this particle not long after the BB left
mass behind as a sort of residue. Actually, this is one of
the goals of the currently undergoing LHC experiments at
CERN, to see if they can create condtions like those
thought to be at the BB and see if any Higgs bosons pop
up and what they actually do, if they do anything.

Believe me these question are at the very forefront of modern astro- and particle physics.
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Hope I haven't scared anyone off with this, but one main job of anyone in science is to explain and help those how have questions to understand the answers, if there are any available.

Kisses!

I think the flying milk bottle is obvious (there aren't any wink ), but the short answer to that question is that we actually are, in a way.

You see, according the Darwin's theory (or rather the vamped-up version, since he didn't know anything about genetics wink ), there is one and only one genetic code on Earth and that this is shared by all living things.

It may creep you out, but our genetic code (for humans) not only matches chimpanzee's to about 97%, about also the tomato's to (I think it was) about 70%! In fact this is the reason we are capable of digesting it as food. If the genetic code was completely different, then the proteins and other stuff found in the tomato (that the tomato makes using its genetic instructions) would be unusable to us and we would have any spaghetti! (Shock and horror!)

We're not sure as to whether we are direct descendants of the dinosaurs (we rather think not, but who knows, we weren't there, after all wink ), but we very definitely are cousins of those who are: the birds.


Kisses!

God thinking guys. Zamat, that was VERY imformative. mrgreen

don't worry about it it is fun to here what everyone belives. ^.^

Sometimes I wonder if our dreams are reality and we are dreams. You never know, our normal lives could be some fantastic stroy to someone in some other... um... dimension.