Atheists and the Big Bang

[Dr Adequate]

And yet once we understand something we don't need to be told. So why is it not self-evident in that sense?

Well, if we came to our understanding of the thing just by looking at that thing, then the thing we've understood is self-evident. If, on the other hand, we had to puzzle over it for years, or ask someone else, then it wasn't self-evident.

 

[RussDill]

Does anyone have the slightest clue where the energy for acceleration is coming from?

It would seem to me to be another consequence of the higgs field.

 

[Iacchus]

Well, if we came to our understanding of the thing just by looking at that thing, then the thing we've understood is self-evident. If, on the other hand, we had to puzzle over it for years, or ask someone else, then it wasn't self-evident.

But then again at some point some things become more commonplace, whereas prior to that they weren't? So, might I suggest it has more to do with this, and more so in terms of what we understand overall?