Big Bang a local event?

[Davej]

Even though everything we can detect was apparently a product of the
Big Bang, and exhibits red shift, isn't it rather parochial to presume
that "everything everywhere" was a product of the Big Bang?

[Davej]

On Nov 15, 8:50 pm, Fred J. McCall <fjmcc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We don't. Just everything we can see from here (known as 'the known
> universe').
>

Well, we say that time didn't exist before the Big Bang. Would that
still be true if there were distant objects?

[Sylvia Else]

Believing that there is a universe at all involves accepting a
complicated physical model that describes what we see. Go out at night -
is what you see a universe thousands of millions of light years across,
or just a large piece of black paper a hundred miles up with luminous
dots on it?

That said, the model doesn't purport to describe everything that exists,
ever existed, or ever will exist. But step away from the model, and you
have nothing but wild speculation to guide you, which is not likely to
lead anywhere useful.

Sylvia.