What Came Before The Big Bang?

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Written by @‪@PaulMSutter‬
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Narrated by David Kelly
Thumbnail art by Ettore Mazza: ettore.mazz...
Sound Editing by Craig Stevenson
Big Bang Animations by Jero Squartini www.fiverr.com/share/0v7Kjv using Manim - MIT License, (c) 2020-2023 3Blue1Brown LLC
Other animations by Manuel Rubio
Other animations by A. Heikal
Galaxies, space videos from NASA, ESO, and ESA
Music from Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Silver Maple and Yehezkel Raz
Stock footage from Videoblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock
00:00 Introduction
05:07 Before The Big Bang
21:12 The Never-Ending Bang
35:06 The Landscape Before Time
49:35 Before The Before The Before...

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It's not really a inflation of size either [because there is no reference frame outside the cosmos to determine scale differential] but rather a increase in the density of configurations that energy can settle into [increase in possible energy states]). Therefore what we can say (there is a decay rate to the fundamental superconductive state of the universe (decrease action over distance from the fundamental conduction of energy mechanism [whatever that is]), which increases the ways that energy can settle at smaller and larger scales to form the interaction fields we observe).

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