• Question: do you think the big bang theory is correct

    Asked by anon-316098 on 17 Mar 2022.
    • Photo: Ian McKinley

      Ian McKinley answered on 17 Mar 2022:

      I really don’t know. I read the magazine “New Scientist” every week and there are lots of articles about the big bang, but the ideas are so crazy that I can’t get my head round them. This seems to be where astronomy (cosmology) gets linked to quantum mechanics. As the famous physicist Richard Feynman said – “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.” And he was a lot smarter than me!

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      Stephen Doughty answered on 17 Mar 2022:

      In my opinion it’s the best theory we’ve got so far and a lot of clever people have thought about it. But it is only a theory so it might get changed and adapted as we obtain more data (which scientists are doing) – that’s the nature of science.

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      Veselina Georgieva answered on 17 Mar 2022:

      I am not an expert in Big Bang Theory but I support Ina McKinley comment.

    • Photo: Graeme Barker

      Graeme Barker answered on 18 Mar 2022:

      A lot of physicists seem to think it is – it’s the best conclusion we can currently make, given the observable facts we have. No doubt it will be refined or even completely changed in the future, as more data is obtained.

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