Ever since my HSC exams were over, i said bye bye to maths and physics, gladly. However, there are a few things, concepts or ideas that still do linger in my mind, and heres one of them:
In 9th grade we were introduced to these intimidating subjects of motion, distance, displacement, potential and kinetic energies and what not. In one of these chapters i remember reading about scalars and vectors. For all those people who are either new to these terms or vaguely remember them, heres the deal- We were taught that scalars is when only magnitude is measured, whereas, vectors is when magnitude as well as direction was taken into consideration.
Also we learned a law called the Law of Conservation Of Momentum which says that in the absence of any external force when two bodies collide with each other, their total momentum after collision is equal to their total momentum before collision.
During the course of the chapter, they also gave us an example; that of a bomb.
'When a bomb explodes, it breaks into fragments which fly in different directions with different velocities. In this case, the law of conservation of momentum is obeyed. Before exploision, the total momentum of all fragments is zero. After exploision, even though various frgments move with different velocities, their directions are such that the vector sum of their momenta is equal to zero.'
So imagine the bomb just sitting there having potential to explode, and then imagine the bomb actually blowing up.
Now imagine a similar object, a really really tiny object many physicists call singularity. Then imagine the object blowing up, and forming- the universe. What i'm trying to say is imagine the Big Bang.
If its possible to count the vector sum of all the moving parts of a bomb and then say that its the same as the initial value (zero), then...
If, (and mind you, thats a big If), it was possible to measure the vector sum of all the moving parts in our universe and finding thats it is zero, won't we be proving the existence of singularity? So if we knew that singularity existed and that it blew up and our universe was formed, won't we be proving the Big Bang itself?
I know its not possible to find the vector sum of all the moving parts of our universe, but i'm speaking purely theoretically here...it was just an idea in my head, that of comparing a bomb explosion to the Big Bang.
I have a very strong feeling ive got it all wrong, that theres an important piece of fact that i'ev ignored or haven't comprehended, so your comments are welcome...