Big Bang—A Planned Event

universe and no single primal explosion at one “spot” took place. The radiation is so regular that it allows the measurement of the motion of heavenly bodies, just as water resistance allows the ship’s speed to be measured. These measurements reveal one exception to regularity: the earth, our solar system and our galaxy—the Milky Way—are out of step with the rest of the Hydra at the speed of more than one million miles per hour. “This is a slight paradox,” Dr. Smoot said. “Because if our galaxy was constant with the rest of the universal expansion, it should only be travelling at about onesixth that rate of speed.” Why the Milky Way is acting this way remains unknown, though Dr Bernard Jones of England’s Cambridge Institute of Astronomy has suggested that the entire universe might be slightly top-sided, with more matter on one side than the other. The gravity of this matter could be tugging the Milky Way, but other galaxies would be affected in that case. The two scientists found none of the swirls of radiation a chaotic explosion might have caused. The basic Smoot-Muller model of the universe is one of the clusters of galaxies moving away from one another at a constant rate towards the end of the universe—if it has ended. More complex than the idea of a messy explosion, the model still leaves the fundamental question unanswered: how did the original bang come about?