[mabbo]

Thing about the big bang is that, as current theories go, it wasn't really an "explosion".

Take a rubber band- one of those big wide ones- and draw two dots 1cm apart. Then stretch the rubber band. The dots aren't moving, but the distance between them is growing. That's the big bang.

During the big bang, the distance between things increased at speeds faster than the speed of light. They didn't move at all (no FTL movement), just new space existed between everything. Still happening now, just at a slower pace (but a pace that seems to be increasing?).

Why? Answer that definitively and you'll earn yourself a Nobel prize or two.