When the Big Bang exploded, why wasn't a large empty region created?

No because the Big Bang is not the same kind of 'explosion' as a fireworks display. Particles did not get ejected from some spot in 3-D space, but instead if general relativity is correct, you have to think of the explosion as a dilation of the separations between all particles. This is a very different kind of motion, but not one through space at all.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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