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Galaxies Are Older Than We Thought — That's A Big Deal

Short Wave

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Introduction

The Big Bang is the moment from which all other time and therefore space time follows. The whole chain of events started really, really fast with what physicists call the hot Big Bang. Immediately afterwards, there is a phase that's less than a second long called the inflationary period where space time expands exponentially.

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