Chapter 2
Let There Be a Big Bang
Introduction: If a Tree Falls in the Universe …
About 13.7 billion years ago, the universe exploded into existence with the Big Bang. As far as we know, there was very little music and theatre at that particular moment. There is quite a bit of controversy about what came before the Big Bang. One line of thought says, “nothing,” which is hard to wrap our brains around. But we do call it the “dawn of time.” Before the Big Bang, there was no time. There was no matter. Or if there was something, it is irrelevant, because it cannot possibly have any effect on the present moment. This monumental event set into motion everything that came after it, not from a deterministic point of view in which every future moment ...
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