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Q&A: How did we outpace the big bang?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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When the universe is born there's all these particles together sharing the same energy at that moment in time. The space between them has got much bigger much more quickly and so we're seeing as though that light is coming to us for the first time when we appear. If you could see through kind of this fog we call it recombination around us you would be able to see the big bang happening all around you if you had a super powerful telescope.

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