• Question: That was really fun. Thank you for that experience. What was the Big Bang-as in, what was the type of explosion?

    Asked by Mr Fleming to Paul on 23 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Ladybird : ).
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      Paul Brack answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Despite its name, the Big Bang was not actually an explosion. In an explosion, things move out from a central, fixed point, whereas in the Big Bang, everything was moving away from everything else – thus it was an expansion, not an explosion.

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