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13.8 Billion Years Ago
Big Bang Expansion
Big Bang
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
13.8 billion years ago, space itself began expanding and cooling, setting the stage for particles, atoms, stars, galaxies, planets, life, and us.
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Did Fred Hoyle coin the term Big Bang as an insult?
Big Bang
Fred Hoyle gave the Big Bang its famous name while arguing against it. He later said it was more of a jab than an actual insult.
Big Bang
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Trivia: Did Einstein or Galileo discover the Relativity Principle?
Relativity
In shaping modern cosmology, Galileo articulated the relativity principle in 1632, Newton made gravity universal in 1687, and Einstein revealed gravity as the curvature of spacetime in 1915.
Big Bang
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