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Everything, everywhere, all at once — then it just kept going.
means The leading scientific model for how the universe began — an extremely hot, dense starting point roughly 13.8 billion years ago that has been expanding ever since.
from The phrase was coined, somewhat mockingly, by astronomer Fred Hoyle in a 1949 radio broadcast — he favored a rival 'steady state' universe and used 'big bang' to needle the expanding-universe idea. The jab backfired spectacularly: the name stuck, outlived the skepticism, and became the official label for the theory it was invented to mock.
- not an explosion
- space itself stretched, nothing exploded into anything
- still happening
- the expansion continues, faster every year
- first light
- universe stayed opaque fog for 380,000 years
- name origin
- coined mockingly by a rival theory's believer