It seems very probable that the Big Bang—the rapid expansion some 14 billion years ago or so of the spatiotemporal and material universe and its ongoing cosmic evolution to the present state in which it now exists and one of several possible ends it may reach in the future—is not the first of its kind. It seems to scientists that the material universe m…
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