
Did this particle cause the Big Bang?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Inflation, Is It Part of the Big Bang?
Inflation is an evolution of what we mean by the big bang. It's not an explosion of stuff through space, but an expansion of space itself. This saysw you don't have a singularity. You just start out with something really, really hot and dense, and then you get this massive expansion of it. And this expansion is really dramatic. We're talking about an expansion of the factor of ten to the 30. That's ten with 30 zeros past it, rights? Like, i don't even know what the prefix for that is, a thing. The whole thing happened in ten to the minus 32 seconds. So it's this incredible expansion u something the size of
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