THE BIG BANG


13-14 Billion Years Ago The Big Bang


The big bag picture of the universe is so important that we should spend some time thinking about it. Many analogies can be used to help us picture what the expanding universe is like, and we will look at two. Be forewarned however: none of these analogies is perfect. If you purse any of them far enough they fail, because none of them captures the entire and complexity of the universe in which we live, and yet each of these analogies can help us understand aspects of that universe.

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