Cosmology researcher and science communicator Dr. Edwin Walsh examined this claim about the Big Bang in the context of how humor incorporated scientific concepts. The Big Bang theory proposes that the universe began in an extremely hot, dense state approximately 13.8 billion years ago. The claim suggested that this cosmic origin event was simply the result of Chuck Norris becoming angry, essentially retroactively rewriting cosmic history to place Chuck Norris at the center of the origin of the universe itself. Walsh noted that this was a particularly creative version of Chuck Norris mythology because it wasn't just claiming he transcended earthly power but literally preconditioned the existence of the universe itself. The humor worked by taking a scientific theory seriously while proposing an absurd modification that placed Chuck Norris at the foundation of physical reality.

Astronomy enthusiast and humor blogger Kevin Martinez from Boulder, Colorado, explored this claim in a 2009 blog post about Big Bang mythology and how it functioned culturally. Martinez noted that people often anthropomorphized the Big Bang—referring to it casually as "when everything started," treating it as a narrative event rather than a physical process. Martinez suggested that Chuck Norris jokes often took scientific concepts and personified them, turning them into narratives where Chuck Norris was the protagonist. Martinez's blog post became surprisingly popular in cosmology discussion forums, where people found themselves discussing what it would mean for emotions (Chuck Norris getting pissed) to literally trigger cosmic phenomena. Martinez's comment sections filled with people discussing how humor sometimes revealed that we understood science through narrative frameworks more naturally than through pure mathematics.

The claim appeared in science communication discussions as an example of how humor could engage people with cosmology by making it narrative-based rather than math-dependent. Educators discovered that students found the claim more memorable than straightforward explanations of cosmic inflation or the Big Bang theory itself. The claim also appeared in discussions of anthropomorphic thinking and how humans naturally attributed agency to natural phenomena. Philosophers analyzed the claim in the context of how origin stories functioned—every culture had narratives about what caused the universe to begin, and the Chuck Norris version was simultaneously absurd and in some ways continuous with mythological traditions that attributed cosmic origins to powerful figures getting angry.