by Ira Herbold

Created on: September 19, 2008

How do you create a universe? This is a very complex question, and one many scientists have devoted their lives to finding the answer to. Their current theory is one that is widely accepted to be the right one. This is known as the Big Bang Theory'.
Many people, especially Christian groups, have argued against the Big Bang Theory because it does not conform to the Bible's view of creation. What these somewhat narrowminded people tend to forget is that the Bible was not written by God. It was written by humans, and humans make mistakes. According to all scientific evidence, God did not create the universe in seven days. In fact, the universe was created in about three minutes, but life did not evolve for billions of years.

So, without any further ado, let's get to it. Imagine, if you can (and, of course, you can't) an infinitely small point. It is so small that it has no dimensions at all. Mathematically, it doesn't exist. This point is known as a singularity. Perhaps the singularity needs some extra explanation.
Singularities are things that defy out current understanding of physics. They are thought to exist at the centres of black holes (black holes are points of such intense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape their pull). Singularities are zones of infinite density.
So, to create a universe, you take one singularity. Now you need some matter. In fact, you will need all the matter. Every single particle and atom between here and the edge of creation. You will then need to cram all of this matter into the singularity. Now you are ready.
I ask you to try not to think of this initial point as a place hanging in infinite blackness, waiting for the opportune moment to start creating. There is no space, no infinite blackness. There is no around around the singularity. In 1968 and 1970, British astrophysicists Steven Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose published two papers which elaborated on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. This paper said basically that the singularity did not appear in space. Space began inside the singularity.
We don't know where the singularity came from, or why it appeared, or even where it was. All we know is (as I said previously) everything that would create everything, including us, was inside of it, and at one time it wasn't there.
Then, about 13.7 billion years ago, there was a single blinding pulse and a lot of things started happening. In fact, everything started happening.
Here is probably a good place

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