In the beginning was nothing. Then the Universe was born in a searing hot
fireball called the big bang. Recent developments, such as the discovery of
“cosmic ripples”, have helped to refine this dramatic vision of creation
FIFTEEN billion years ago, our Universe erupted out of nothing in a
titanic explosion that we now call the big bang. Everything – all matter,
energy, even space and time – came into being at that instant. Ever since,
the stuff of the Universe has been expanding and cooling.
In the earliest moments of the big bang, the Universe occupied a tiny
volume and was…
