Everything that there is, today, right out into the furthest depths of space, stems from that astonishing ‘beginning’. Colloquially, the event is known as the Big Bang. The name reflects several features of the event – for example, that tiny speck of space/time was enormously hot, and grew in size exceedingly rapidly. It was like a huge explosion – but there was no stick of cosmic dynamite, sitting there in no-space with its non-material fuse burning away as some kind of pre-time pseudo-clock counted down the seconds to detonation. What exploded was – nothing. Space, time, and matter are the
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