"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Sir Isaac Newton
Fifteen billion years ago, the entirety of our universe was compressed into the boundaries of an atomic nucleus. Known as the cosmic egg, or nutshell, or, more scientifically, as singularity, this is the moment before creation when space and time did not yet exist. According to the general cosmological models that explain our universe, an indescribable explosion, trillions of degrees in temperature on any measurement scale, created not only fundamental subatomic particles and thus matter and energy, but also space. Precisely at that point, the counter variable time started increasing, i.e. time was created. At this point in space and time the universe was extremely compact, dense, and hot, and the first three......
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