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AMA | July 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Big Bang and the Universe

We are not able to say what happened at the moment that we talk about as the big bang. What that moment is, is an extrapolation into the past using Einstein's theory of general relativity. As far as current theory is concerned, the universe could simply have had a first moment. We do know that there's no need for anything to have banged.

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