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How Big Bang Theory Works, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stuff You Should Know

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The Big Bang Was Not an Explosion

A man named Sir Fred Hoyle is the one who gave it a name almost as sort of an insult because he was a believer at the time in the steady state theory. What we're talking about is all of the matter, energy, and space we could observe was compressed to an area of zero-volume and infinite density. It's like if Neil deGrasse Tyson listens to this, he's going to love this. And you know what I'm talking about? When Strickland and cosmologists talk about that thing with zero volume and infinite density,. That thing bears repeating at least one more time.

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