THE BIG BANG!

This is probably what the big bang looked like when it exploded.
the whole process of expansion took billions of years but
you can see it happen in a few seconds!

The Universe is shown here at birth, exploding with a titanic big bang from a single infinitely small point
       of infinite density and of infinite mass, creating the billions of galaxies
           which expand and eventually use up all their energy, turning into dark matter such as black holes.
              Eventually all the matter in the universe will be gravitationally brought back to the center
                  in a gigantic recycling gravitational collapse known as "THE BIG CRUNCH!"
                       All life created should have ascended long before the big crunch.
                    After the big crunch, the cycle will begin again with a new BIG BANG
                   and the next universe will be greater than the previous one by the factor of

THE GOLDEN RATIO...

  =

1.6180339887482...
Symbolized by the Greek letter "Phi" it was

The mathematical truth in which Plato and the Greek mathematicians considered
                 "The Key to the Physics of the Cosmos!"

For a math exercise on how to get "Phi"
Click on the Greek symbol

A few billion years after the BIG BANG, matter began to cool.   Groups of matter formed in clusters which began to gravitationally attract each other in the form of giant string-like structures billions of light years across.  These giant structures  would contain the seeds for galactic clusters that would begin to form.  Strings of clusters of galaxies appear to dominate the Universe from what astronomers can see with the best telescopes.  A three dimensional view of the universe of the present and it's most likely appearance is seen in the diagram below.
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Gravity creates giant strings of galaxies as the Universe expands
Click on the exploding star
and fly-by the expanding Universe containing Giant strings of galaxies!
 
 

Scientist can go back in time and tell us what happened a millisecond AFTER the great explosion of the big bang.  But NOT BEFORE!  To view a diagram on what happened a millisecond after the big bang and how the universe developed click on the Cambridge Cosmology picture.