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Bill Bryson Reading Assignment Essay

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Bill Bryson Reading Assignment I
Due Date: September 13, 2016
Rashmi Acharya
Hour 6

What do astronomers think the universe was like the instant before the Big Bang? Astronomers believe the whole universe started with that we 're shrunk to a billionth of its normal size into a place infinitesimally tiny. Then you must pack that minuscule space about an ounce of matter. Then you are ready to start the universe. To imagine this you need to gather every last particle of matter between this and the edge of creation and fir it into a spot so close together it really does not posses any dimensions at all. This concept or idea is known as singularity. Outside of the singularity there is no other place, because the universe was created from this singularity so before this singularity there was no universe.
What do astronomers think happened in the universe in the few minutes after the Big Bang? In a single moment the universe starts expanding exponentially. The singularity assumes dimensions, space beyond conception. In less than a minute, the universe is so much more than a billion miles across and still expanding. Now there is 10 billion degrees of heat which is enough to start the nuclear reactions

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