World Big Bang Day

This event has nothing to do with the TV series "The Big Bang Theory".
This event was inspired by the thoughts of a 7 year old girl from Athy, Ireland, but is relevant to everyone, everywhere.
This events aim is to gather half a million attendee's to urge the relevant world organisations to name a day, preferably the first day of spring or the eve of the first day of spring,... [read more]

This event has nothing to do with the TV series "The Big Bang Theory".
This event was inspired by the thoughts of a 7 year old girl from Athy, Ireland, but is relevant to everyone, everywhere.
This events aim is to gather half a million attendee's to urge the relevant world organisations to name a day, preferably the first day of spring or the eve of the first day of spring, "World Big Bang Day".
We are celebrating the event that set everything in motion to give birth to planet earth.

My daughter, who is 7, is being brought up as a catholic. I am atheist, but I cant complain about her Christian upbringing as I, as a Christian at the time, and her mother who is still a Christian, willingly baptised her and actively sought that spiritual way of life for her. Who am I to insist on changing her life just because I see things different now. These are my wife's wishes and I respect and except them. When she is older I will explain to her my beliefs and she will make up her own mind.
However, I do try to open her mind to the vastness of the cosmos and to think for herself. We watch programs like Mystery Hunters and BBC science & learning stuff together so she is very open minded for her age.

On the 31st of January, whilst walking home from school she asked me some questions. Her main query was, what is space made of. She knows about comets, planets etc etc but was confused as to the ingredients of space itself. You know, I wasn't sure what to say. I said, because I think its right but not sure, that space was made of nothing. It was a vacuum of emptiness that everything floats around in.
This brought us to where did it come from so I tried to explain about the big bang. Of course I had to say it was gods doing and he just clicked his fingers and the big bang happened. So when did this all happen was next. I'm not sure if a child grasps the concept of a million years, let alone 14 billion years because she then asked me what month of the year was it when it happened.....lol.
I, as best as I could, explained that it was so long ago, before time itself, 8 billion years before the earth formed and there was no months or seasons. She was getting frustrated now and sighed, "So when do we celebrate it, you know like Christmas or St. Patrick's day"? I told her we don't celebrate it. We have no idea of the time of year it happened and never celebrated it.... ever.
Well that was the most stupidest thing she ever heard. She is convinced that Humans should celebrate such a huge occasion and even suggested tomorrow, the 1st of February, or 1st day of Spring, become that day.
I was gob smacked as to her arrival at this conclusion,but you know, she's right. We should celebrate the dawn of everything we know exists, and what better date to do so than the first day of spring or even the eve of the first day of spring.

Children have the most inquiring minds and sometimes their statements have more sense and clarity than all those from all the politicians and people of influence throughout the whole world.

Since this conversation with my daughter I have created a Facebook event with the intention of gathering 500,000 attenders before march of 2013. If/when this number is reached I will approach as many astrological, atheist, physics, etc etc societies as I can, with the aim of renaming either, the first day of spring or the eve of the first day of spring, Big Bang Day.

Irrelevant of whether you have religious views or not, I think, though of course influenced by my daughters mind, that BBD should be marked in the Human calender. The Big Bang is the precursor to everything we knows exists, from the stars you see at night, to the sand that trickles from you hand.

In these troubling days we live in, humans as a species, need a flag that we can all proudly stand under together as one species in solidarity and recognise that we all come from the same building blocks.

The body of a new born baby is as old as the cosmos. The form is new and unique but the materials are 13.7 billion years old, processed by nuclear fission in stars, fashioned by electromagnetism. Cold words for amazing processes.... And that baby was you.... Is you. Your amazing. Not only alive, but with a mind. What fool would swap this for every winning lottery ticket ever drawn. - philhellene (youtube)

Lastly, I would also like to add that this event has no political, religious, non-religious agenda and everyone one is welcome irrelevant of race, creed and colour. I'm just doing this for my daughter.

If you'd like to contribute to this event, just click attending and invite as many folk as you can. 500,000 is a big number and we depend on your help.

Thanks in advance and Happy Big Bang day of course:)

Bucky Khronic.

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"I stepped out of a Supernova, And maybe I've lived this life a million times over, But whatever your beliefs, Whatever your name, There is only one truth: We are all the same. Whatever your colour, Black, green or blue, It's time we celebrated, Just being here; me and you. So, come on over, Join the gang, Let's all come together, Let's hear it for the Big Bang!!!" -Christabel Menezes

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