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THE BIG BANG ~13,7 billion years

According to the theory of the Big Bang, an enormous singular explosion created the universe 13.7 billion years ago. It also caused the expansion and cooling-down of the universe which continues until today .

The theory, developed around 1920, has actually been adapted by most scientists these days. It replaced the contemporary image of a static, homogenous, infinite universe (even Einstein adapted it).

Since then, a number of observations have been made that support the theory of the Big Bang (as for example the discovery of the cosmic background radiation or the “echo” of the Big Bang, which was mentioned by the theory).
However, scientists are still struggling to explain what really happened in the moment of the explosion – and especially what was there before, if you can even speak about “before”.

According to the string theory, the formation of our universe was caused by the collision of two parallel universes. Following another theory, the universe is expanding infinitely. Still another theory says that the universe expanded, then contracted again … like infinite breath. 

大霹靂 ~137億年前

根據大霹靂理論，在137億年前，從一場異常巨大的爆炸中，宇宙誕生了。這也使得宇宙不斷爆炸與收縮至今。

這理論從1920年開始發展，許多科學家將其修正至更完善。至今宇宙不再被認為是靜止，均勻而無限的。(雖然連愛因斯坦都這樣認為)

自從大霹靂理論發展以來，有一些天體觀測者提供了該理論的證據。(舉例來說，藉由該理論來探索宇宙背景輻射或大霹靂的”回聲”) (譯者註：宇宙背景輻射被認為是大霹靂的回音，表示宇宙之外尚有其他宇宙，炸出去時打到其他宇宙，才會反射回來。感覺不難理解，想知道更多請自行咕狗。)

然而，科學家依舊努力地想解釋爆炸當時發生了什麼—尤其是在那之前，假如可以定義成”之前”。

根據弦理論，我們的宇宙是由兩個平行宇宙撞擊而成的。根據其他理論，宇宙是無限擴張的，但擴張之後也會收縮……如同無限的呼吸。(譯者註：弦理論要見時間簡史一類的書，或查維基，看過時間簡史還是覺得不好懂。)