A Brief History of Everything, feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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========== "The world has persisted
many a long year,having once been set going
in the appropriate motions.From these, everything else follows."Lucretius.In the beginning,about 13.7 billion years ago,all the space, and all the matter,
and all the energy of the known universewas contained in a volume less
than one trillionth the sizeof the point of a pin.Conditions were so hot the
basic forces of naturethat collectively describe
the universe were unified.For reasons unknown, this
sub-pinpoint-sized cosmos began to expand.When the universe was a piping-hot
10 to the 30th degrees,and a youthful 10 to the
minus 43 seconds old --before which all of our
theories of matter and spacebreak down and have no meaning --black holes spontaneously formed,
disappeared, and fo...