big bang
Dramatic loud noise
A big bang is any dramatic, explosive beginning—the sudden launch of a project, initiative, or era: The company entered the market with a big bang.
The phrase emphasizes impact and spectacle over gradual development. (Capitalized Big Bang is the cosmological theory.)
beginning
Initial stage of something
inception · emergence · commencement · outset · starting point · impact · spectacle
- scientific phrasesblack hole, natural selection, climate change, genetic code, cell division
- space eventseclipse, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, meteor shower, comet
- astrophysicsblack hole, neutron star, supernova, black holes, neutron stars
- cosmologyuniverse, dark matter, cosmic inflation, dark energy, expansion
- cosmic historyinflation, dark ages, star formation, recombination, nucleosynthesis
- Faith and Sciencefaith and reason, intelligent design, creationism, creation science, evolution debate
cosmological origin vs. end
big bangbig crunch
Powerful crushing impact
heat death · big freeze · whimper · slow fade · entropy
bigger, biggest, bigly, bigness, big-hearted, Big Ben, Big Dipper, Bigfoot, Big Apple