The universe was made up of two plasmas. Plasmas reflect all the ons an thef there's enough plasma in three dimensions, then the plasma will just keep reflecting the light and it's cond like a cloud or a three dimensional mirror, if you will. Once hydrogen could form, the universe went from a plasma, two plasma, as i said, to a single gas of hydrogen. And that took about 380 thousand years. It didn't happen instantaneously. Like it's much like a condensation process. You have steam in a shower. If you ever go to a steam shower, you can't see o the steam. It looks like sallorest have ever
What happened before The Big Bang? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen answer questions about inflation theory, multiverses, the cosmic microwave background, and the possible end of the scientific method with cosmologist Brian Keating
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