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In which direction in the sky did the big bang take place 13.8 billion years ago?
Luce Gilmore
Cambridge, UK
The big bang was the origin of space and time (as well as matter and energy), hence it happened everywhere.
Mike Follows
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK
The universe doesn’t have a centre we can point towards. This is because the big bang wasn’t a conventional explosion. If it were, you would be able to track the debris back to its origin and to a point in the sky. Instead, the big bang was the instant that both time and space were created. The space between…
