The Big bang does not refer to the abominable attitude that any problem can be solved with adequate quantity of gun powder. It is a well researched and mathematically supported scientific theory that speculates how the universe could have come into existence. Billions of dollars have been spent on research to prove this theory, may be as much as the particle theory that explains the ultimate nature and structure of things as they exist.
Every thing that exists has certain properties or characteristics that can either be observed and measured directly or indirectly, or may be assumed and verified. Both the creation of the universe and the ultimate nature of substances are topics that have formed the basis of dogmatic beliefs, and need to be correlated scientifically. Whereas a theoretical analysis requires assumptions, equations, boundary conditions and computers, to produce a tangible result you need resources, creativity, effort and medium in addition to yourself. There can be no doubt as to whether the brick was made first or the building. The correlation of various scientific and non-scientific theories gives the following picture.
At sometime in the very distant past, someone created a few very large spheres consisting of extremely dense and brittle material that floated in the great void. The creator also incorporated in the spheres, certain laws of behavior that would be complied with in all circumstances.
At a certain point in time, one of the smaller spheres collided with a much bigger sphere and intense vibration was set into it. The energy build-up was so gigantic that it heated up to a very high temperature and exploded. The explosion was so powerful that the ultra dense sphere disintegrated into a huge expanding ball of dust consisting of a dozen or so types of submicroscopic elementary particles. A huge amount of electromagnetic radiation was also emitted. The particles having highest velocities were at the outer surface of the ball while the slowest were at the inner surface of the partially hollow spherical cloud, the rest were in between the two.
The nascent elementary particles combined with each other to form larger particles, atoms and molecules of the natural elements, in the form of hot gases or plasma which was much colder than the elementary particles due to highly endothermic reactions that combined them into larger ones. As time passed, the gases cooled further by emitting infrared radiation. Since the sphere was hollow, it did not develop a central point of thermal concentration. However, its continuity was breached at numerous points and millions of very large gas clouds traveling away from the center of the Universe were formed. The gas clouds were so large, that on cooling to a certain degree, they collapsed under gravity, re-exploded and formed galaxies, stars and planets.
It is also possible that the whole original sphere did not pulverize into elementary particles, but broke up into a few billion chunks. Some of these chunks continued to disintegrate and formed the centers of galaxies and stars while the vibrations of most of them died out in time and they became black holes.
However, one thing is certain--- our earth is not at the center of the Universe. The stars and galaxies that are moving in the same direction as ours, appear to be receding slowly (difference of velocities) while those on the other side of the center of the universe that are traveling in the opposite direction seem to be moving fast (sum of velocities).
