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expansion of the universe

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Making sense of making the Universe

How did the all the stars and galaxies end up where we see them today? The very first instance of the Universe's existence holds the answer.
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Bang, crunch, freeze and the multiverse

Some of the things I overheard at Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday conference did make me wonder whether I hadn't got the wrong building and stumbled in on a sci-fi convention. "The state of the multiverse". "The Universe is simple but strange". "The future for intelligent life is potentially infinite". And — excuse me — "the Big Bang was just the decay of our parent vacuum"?!