Expert: Aupmanyav - 2/5/2008

Question
I am not religious at all but have this line going again again in my mind - science is trying to explain what something superior has started or created - the big bang theory implies something exploding, doesn't it? if so, what is that something and how it got there in the first place. Even if there were answers to all the question about what happened after the big bang there would still be that question unanswered, for me, for now.

Answer
Dear Yorum,

Sure that is the biggest question. If one gets tired of searching, one can easily sigh resignedly and say 'sky daddy did it'. But science does not work like that, they go on searching. I could find two interesting sites for you to study in a quick search. Note that the first comes in two varieties, basic and advanced. What happened after big-bang is not that much of a problem.

http://www.superstringtheory.com/cosmo/index.html
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/cosmo.htm

Science accepts the many problems that they have not been able to solve (work continues -  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_problems_in_physics). It does not shy off the questions as the theists do.

Hope you find the two sites interesting.

Yours sincerely,

Aupmanyav