Big Bang

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Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being.

And then we cut ourselves off and don't feel that we're still the big bang, but you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually—if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning—you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you I see not just what you define yourself as...I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that too, but we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it.—Alan Watts, The Nature Of Consciousness

Characteristics Time in seconds Temp in degrees Kelvin Energy of collisions in giga electron volts Distance of collisions in cm Size of today's observed universe in cm

Origin of the universe in Big Bang model. Start of TOE epoch. 0 infinite infinite 0 0

Plank time; TOE breakdown. Start of GUT epoch. 10^-44 10³² 10¹⁹ 10^-33 0

GUT breakdown. Start of inflation epoch. 10^-36 10²⁸ 10¹⁵ 10^-29 0

End of inflation. Start of the epoch of the standard model of the electroweak and strong interactions. 10^-33 10²⁷ 10¹⁴ 10^-28 10

Breakdown of electroweak symmetry. Epoch of the four separate interactions (continuing to this day). LEP physics. 10^-10 10¹⁵ 100 10^-16 10¹⁵
(Solar system)

Creation of cosmic background radiation 10¹³
(1 million years)
4000 10^-10 10^-5
(1/1000 of the diameter of an atom)
10²⁵
(10 million light years)

Now 10¹⁸
(15 billion years)
2.7 10^-13
0.1 10²⁸
(15 billion light years)

It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall.
Smash!

And all that ink spread, and in the middle it's dense...and as it gets out on the edge the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns...So in the same way there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread, and you and I sitting here in this room as complicated human beings are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting, but...we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique way out on the edge of that explosion, way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being, and then we cut ourselves off and don't feel that we're still the big bang, but you are. Depends how you define yourself.—Alan Watts, The Nature Of Consciousness

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Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being.

And then we cut ourselves off and don't feel that we're still the big bang, but you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually—if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning—you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you I see not just what you define yourself as...I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that too, but we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it.—Alan Watts, The Nature Of Consciousness
Characteristics	Time in seconds	Temp in degrees Kelvin	Energy of collisions in giga electron volts	Distance of collisions in cm	Size of today's observed universe in cm
Origin of the universe in Big Bang model. Start of TOE epoch.	0	infinite	infinite	0	0
Plank time; TOE breakdown. Start of GUT epoch.	10^-44	10³²	10¹⁹	10^-33	0
GUT breakdown. Start of inflation epoch.	10^-36	10²⁸	10¹⁵	10^-29	0
End of inflation. Start of the epoch of the standard model of the electroweak and strong interactions.	10^-33	10²⁷	10¹⁴	10^-28	10
Breakdown of electroweak symmetry. Epoch of the four separate interactions (continuing to this day). LEP physics.	10^-10	10¹⁵	100	10^-16	10¹⁵ (Solar system)
Creation of cosmic background radiation	10¹³ (1 million years)	4000	10^-10	10^-5 (1/1000 of the diameter of an atom)	10²⁵ (10 million light years)
Now	10¹⁸ (15 billion years)	2.7	10^-13	0.1	10²⁸ (15 billion light years)
It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash!

And all that ink spread, and in the middle it's dense...and as it gets out on the edge the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns...So in the same way there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread, and you and I sitting here in this room as complicated human beings are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting, but...we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique way out on the edge of that explosion, way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being, and then we cut ourselves off and don't feel that we're still the big bang, but you are. Depends how you define yourself.—Alan Watts, The Nature Of Consciousness