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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 316
Einstein's general theory of relativity, plus some reasonable assumptions about the universe and what it's made of, has a remarkable implication: that as we trace cosmic evolution into the far past, we ultimately hit a singularity of infinite density and curvature, the Big Bang. Did that really happen? Einstein's…
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