Despite what you might have been told, the universe didn’t begin, not really. It’s tempting to picture the embryonic universe, before the Big Bang, as a seed, pregnant with all the possibility of the cosmos to come, ready to germinate. But as far as we understand, the universe was already growing when it began. This means it wasn’t a beginning at all, but rather the start of a new phase of its existence. For simplicity’s sake, and since all stories need a beginning, let’s say that our universe... Read this story
