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The Big Bang was less of an explosion than a transformation of energy into matter.

Energy transformed into matter during the Big Bang.

Was the Big Bang an Explosion or Something Else?

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The Big Bang was less of an explosion than a transformation of energy into matter.

Energy transformed into matter during the Big Bang.

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Was the Big Bang an Explosion or Something Else Published: December 3, 2021 NARRATOR: Inflation creates the Big Bang. But it was not, as we commonly imagine, some kind of explosion. It was largely a transformation, a transformation of energy into matter.And the rapid inflation left its mark, the tiny fluctuations in the rippling ocean of energy became imprinted into our universe.DAVID KAISER: Those little quantum fluctuations, they would have gotten stretched as the universe itself stretched, so rapidly, so dramatically. So, a little wave of unevenness that starts out during inflation would get stretched to astrophysical scales.NARRATOR: The fluctuations that existed before the Big Bang go on to create everything we see in the sky today. Gravity takes hold of the tiny variations that now crisscross the young universe, creating great clumps of matter but also great voids, spinning a web-like pattern that spans the universe.The densest regions collapse to form the first stars and the first galaxies. After nine-billion years of cosmic evolution, a new star is forming in the Milky Way: our sun.Eight planets emerge, including our planet, Earth.

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