I watched a video visualising the proton.
Is there something similar for the Big Bang? So far I've seen only those, where the bright explosion kind of happens (and dies out) at a single spot, instead of everywhere.
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$\begingroup$ I don't know if such a thing would be useful. The universe was unbearably bright at the start, and quite uniform. It was opaque until ~370,000 years after the Big Bang. $\endgroup$– PM 2RingCommented Jun 6 at 19:23
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3$\begingroup$ what do you mean by "the one they did for a proton" Who's "they". What did "they" do? $\endgroup$– James KCommented Jun 6 at 19:29
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$\begingroup$ @JamesK google for a video called "Visualizing the Proton: A Documentary" $\endgroup$– Andrey LebedenkoCommented Jun 7 at 20:16
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1$\begingroup$ Well "the big bang" is the whole universe. A proton has three quarks and the (gluon, photon, W Z, ) interactions between them. The big bang (=universe) has $10^80$ quarks in a pretty small area, And unlike the proton, it isn't stable, it changes over time. And a big point of the documentary is "This isn't precise", "This isn't science, it is a meeting of art with science". It doesn't show you what a proton looks like, but tries to represent, by metaphor, some of the aspects of the science. $\endgroup$– James KCommented Jun 7 at 20:39
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1$\begingroup$ So what you see is a uniform plasma getting less and less dense and cooler and cooler, while always filling an infinite universe. $\endgroup$– James KCommented Jun 7 at 20:46
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