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Originally Posted by gman
A question in relation to the Big Bang theory.
Has anyone calculated the force required to project all matter etc from a central point to over a 160 billion light year area in 30 odd seconds and what could have or needed to be to produce that force?
I can't even begin to imagine the force required to make this happen
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You're labouring under the impression that there was a central point of expansion. With respect to the universe itself as we see it, there was no central point. The expansion happened everywhere, simultaneously. If you were to define a central point of expansion, it would have to lie outside of spacetime as we see it.
There was no force, as we would define it, that can be calculated. It was spacetime itself which expanded....now this would take enormous energy, however, a force needs a carrier particle to propagate that force and the domain in which that force is exerted is the force field. Since those particles belong to spacetime itself and arise out of it the best you can say is that it was a "universal force" in size that drove the expansion. The force was spacetime itself and spacetime expanded of its own volition, once set in motion.