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The Universe Is Created From Non-Existence 29

study, which used the 2.5 meter-diameter Sloan telescope, was led by Daniel
Eisenstein from the University of Arizona. 28
Both groups' findings were announced at a meeting held by the Ameri-
can Astronomical Society in San Diego on 11 January, 2005. Colless and Eisen-
stein's teams determined a correlation between fluctuations in the distances
between galaxies and the fluctuations observed in background cosmic radi-
ation. It was thus established that the galaxies were seeded around 350,000
years after the Big Bang in areas where matter was slightly more intensely
clustered together.
The findings obtained from these studies further reinforced the Big
Bang theory. Dr. Russell Cannon, a team member of the latter survey,
emphasized this support in the words:
We've known for a long time that the best theory for the universe is the Big
Bang - that it started in some enormous explosion in a tiny space and it
expanded ever since. … What we can now be much more confident about is
that it is the right basic idea, it all bolts together very nicely. 29

Facts Announced By The Qur'an 14 Centuries Ago
To sum up, the definite conclusion reached by astrophysics was that
the entire universe, with its matter and time dimensions, came into being at
a moment of zero with a big explosion (Big Bang). Before the Big Bang, there