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says that this flawless universe was not created but has always existed
must not remain unanswered. Do you not agree?
After reading the section below, you yourself will be able to provide
the best answer. Now, let's expand on the subject of the universe and save
the answer to the end.
- Everything Started to Form In a Big Explosion
During the times when people did not have telescopes to make
observations of the heavens, they had very little, and very unreliable,
information about the remote universe, and they had very different ideas
about it. With advances in technology, they attained accurate information
about outer space. In the mid-twentieth century, they discovered
something very important. The universe has a date of birth, which means
that the universe has not always existed. The universe—in other words,
the stars, planets and galaxies—started to form at a specific date.
Scientists calculated the age of the universe to be 15 billion years.
They named the moment the universe was born the "Big Bang,"
because 15 billion years ago, when nothing existed, everything suddenly
emerged with an explosion from a single point. In brief, matter and the
universe, which people assumed to have always existed, had a beginning.
At this point, the question arises, "How did they come to understand that
it had a beginning?" That was quite easy; The matter that scattered and
sped away from other particles of matter with the big explosion is still
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