Yep that's the problem I used explosion. You were using a balloon. The entire universe is the center of the big bang. As far as I know its called the Big Bang theory but they don't use Big Bang to explain any part of it.
Is that the observable universe or the whole universe and does that include the multiple dimensions universes. I want to make sure I use the proper term this time.
Bob, we need to clarify something's here for you. The big Bang theory itself states the universe was extremely hot and dense in the past. That is the theory and we have extremely strong evidence for it including a lot of pictures of it from the remnant light left over called the CMB. Look at this website
Timeline of the Universe Image
Then we sent a better satellite to make measurements. The Planck Satellite and they are going through that data now and have been.
Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe / Planck / Space ..
Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe / Planck / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
We could go back in time to it to the Planck time scale a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second, but then physics and math breakdown.
So They believe this was a singularity. But we still don't know that yet for a fact, but this helps support it.
However we could only see back to 380,000 years after the bang, because we couldn't see past the "surface of last scatter"
"When WMAP observes the microwave background sky it looks back to when there were free electrons that could readily scatter cosmic background radiation. This cosmic background "cloud surface" is called the "surface of last scatter". If there were any "features" imprinted in this surface of last scatter (i.e.- regions that were brighter or dimmer than average) they will remain imprinted to this day because emitted light travels across the universe largely unimpeded."
So this was 375,000 years after inflation.
"375,000 years after inflation and has traversed the universe largely unimpeded since then. The conditions of earlier times are imprinted on this light; it also forms a backlight for later developments of the universe."
This new discovery if confirmed and its looking good, supports inflation theory, but it also then allows us to go back further then the CMB and last light scatter.
"Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of today's best telescopes. All this, of course, has just been theory.
Researchers from the BICEP2 collaboration today announced the first direct evidence supporting this theory, known as "cosmic inflation." Their data also represent the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the "first tremors of the Big Bang." Finally, the data confirm a deep connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity."
New evidence supports Stanford physicist's theory of how universe began
I also want to point out the galaxies are being dragged along with space
"stretching"
Also point out the space is still expanding faster then light.
The galaxies are not winging out into the universe in all directions, space itself is dragging them in all directions.
Another important aspect of this discovery is the quest for cosmology on the big scale to work out with quantum mechanics on the very small scale this has been a major goal for awhile now, between cosmologists and QM scientists.
Professor Andrei Linde spent 30 years of his life on it and is the founder of the theory for Inflation.
Of course you know who Albert Einstein was and his contributions along with Edward Hubble, and "Monseigneur Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Catholic Priest, was the originator of what would become known as the "Big Bang Theory".
The evidence for the Big Bang theory itself is as strong as evolution of life on Earth.
If you want to argue cosmology with Albert Einstein, Monseigneur Georges Lemaître, Edward Hubble, Stephen Hawkings, Leonard Susskind, and thousands of other major scientists all the way back to Newton and Gallieo and I am missing a lot in the list. Good luck with that and left me know how it turns out.
Come to think of it, I don't even remember where I heard it first.
