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if you start here and you keep going you end up in the same place. So I could have drawn a circle but this looks more like sciency or science fiction. So imagine what happens after the big bang. So far I've explained time and infinity and we've explained how there could be a beginning because it's illogical that anything has a beginning because there has to be something before that. But if space…
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So what happens if all the matter in the universe continues for trillions of years to expand? All right think of it in terms of not energy but in terms of the odds right? Remember because energy is really just another way of saying the odds. Wherever there's the most energy there's the most possibility. So at the moment of the big bang there were no possibilities. As soon as one thing changed, hypothetically if one thing changed in that solid nothing moving world, could that one change have made everything unstable and blown up into the entire universe?
Now once the universe is let's say 14 or 15 billion years old what happens to the odds of anything happening? They start getting really good. So suddenly you went from the singularity where nothing could happen and the odds of a
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nything happening were basically zero to something happened. Maybe you could call it God. If one particle changed in the singularity and that was all it took to blow it up you would call that a god particle would you? Just something that happened that shouldn't have happened and nobody can explain it. One particle got out of whack and boom, universe. Now as soon as the universe is big you go from…
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