A brief history of the universe

Rationalising The Universe

Carl Sagan once said “the cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be”. Statements like this deserve to be repeated; the kind of statement that seems reasonably intuitive on a surface level, but when you think on it; ocean deep and slightly scary. The question of God seems to crop up quite a lot when you study theoretical physics; probably because of the fanciful notions and mystery that shrouds the front lines of research. I often think that if God were to exist then (s)he must love a good detective drama; leaving us sitting out on our rock, on a far flung corner of a galaxy, billions of years after the creation of the universe with nothing but small clues to piece together. God aside; this is still the situation we find ourselves in, detectives doing our best with the odds ever stacked…

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