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Can you, by calculating the relative speeds and positions of stars and galaxies, calculate the point of origin for the big bang?

Considering we have mapped the relative speeds and positions of thousands of galaxies, and so know how fast they are moving and where to, has anyone tried and run the whole process in reverse to see where they all originated from?

This should be ground zero for the big bang (if all matter originated in a point) and would be some evidence for the theory that all matter originated from a single point.

if this point exists, what would be there? Would there be galaxies and stars closer to the point or would that area of the universe be empty of all matter (it having all been propelled out by the big bang)?

 

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  • Asked by ukbandit
  • on 2011-01-04 11:22:33
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Jon-Richfield says:

Bandit, the bang was everywhere! It was not in any one place in our universe any more than in any other!

Think of the expansion in a 2D analogue such as the spherical surface of a balloon; all the molecules on the balloon's surface are moving apart equally; if you shrink the surface to zero, which molecule would be the one at which the expansion started?

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