One of the things I have been thinking about recently is, just how far are we from the big bang? I believe in the big bang and for that reason, I am wondering just were we sit relative to all the other stuff in outer space. I would think, but have no data to prove it, that the further out you are from the big bang, the less advanced you would be. I think that stuff closer to the big bang is where we should be concentrating our energy. This is the reason for my question.

Any comments? John

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One of the things I have been thinking about recently is, just how far are we from the big bang? I believe in the big bang and for that reason, I am wondering just were we sit relative to all the other stuff in outer space. I would think, but have no data to prove it, that the further out you are from the big bang, the less advanced you would be. I think that stuff closer to the big bang is where we should be concentrating our energy. This is the reason for my question.

Everybody is just as far from the big bang as everyone else. The big bang occurred everywhere all at once, then everywhere got a whole lot bigger.

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One of the things I have been thinking about recently is, just how far are we from the big bang? I believe in the big bang and for that reason, I am wondering just were we sit relative to all the other stuff in outer space. I would think, but have no data to prove it, that the further out you are from the big bang, the less advanced you would be. I think that stuff closer to the big bang is where we should be concentrating our energy. This is the reason for my question.

Everybody is just as far from the big bang as everyone else. The big bang occurred everywhere all at once, then everywhere got a whole lot bigger.

Mray is right, no place is "closer to the big bang" than other places; the universe doesn't work that way.

It's a bit tricky to wrap your head around sometimes, but here's a good analogy that's been used in the scientific community before:

Imagine that the 3-dimensional space you perceive is the 2-dimensional surface of a balloon (the universe is actually 4 dimensional, including time, and possibly has more dimensions as well).

When the Big Bang happened, the balloon (which was originally a point infinitely hot and infinitely small) was filled with air and expanded rapidly. The rate of expansion eventually slowed down but still continues to this day and is likely to continue forever, which means the balloon will continue to get bigger and bigger.

Every single individual location on the surface of the balloon is equally distant from the Big Bang and every single point is expanding away from every other point.