Just An Observation

The Big Bang model has become one of the best known in modern science. Everyone with a brain smaller than a planet has a really hard time getting their head round the realities of relativity. Anyone with a brain smaller than a medium-sized galaxy has real problems with quantum physics. Yet the idea that everything we see burst into existence in a colossal explosion, the likes of which is wholly unimaginable in its stupendousness, has real popular appeal.

Hanlon, Michael. The Science of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Macmillan: New York, NY, 2005; p. 83.