origin of the universe
Everything's first moment
The origin of the universe refers to how everything in existence came to be.
In modern cosmology, this is the Big Bang—the rapid expansion from an extremely hot, dense state roughly 13.8 billion years ago.
Religious and philosophical traditions offer competing accounts: divine creation, cyclical existence, emergence from primordial chaos.
The question of what existed before, or what caused the origin, remains debated: Scientists study the origin of the universe through cosmic background radiation.
- Big BangUniverse's explosive origin
- creationismDivine origin doctrine
- Enuma ElishBabylonian cosmogonic narrative
- causalityCause-effect connection
- DreamtimeAboriginal mythological creation era
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