Quote Originally Posted by Filterlab View Post
Ahhh, of course.

Here on earth an explosion takes quite a concerted effort to conduct, in space however, where there was nothing, it appears to have been quite easy.

I've never been wholly convinced at the big bang theory.
As the theory goes - the Big Bang wasn't really an explosion, but in any case the conditions prevailing at the very beginning of time, before even atoms existed were so different that it's not meaningful to compare it to an explosion on Earth. The laws of physics may have been different.