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Ask Ethan: How did the Universe truly begin? (bigthink.com)
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If you said "with the Big Bang," congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here's what we've learned in all the time since.

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No. Our observable universe would be way to small to be connected to the inflationary region. Also, the inflationary universe probably doesn't have any of our particles so it would not have any light photons. It would probably just look like a mysterious dark area to us.