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The Big Bang: How It All Began

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In this chapter we describe the early phases of the universe. First, we consider what evidence there is from observations that the Big Bang really happened. Then we go back to the standard model of the physics of particles and forces described in the previous chapter.

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Hanslmeier, A. (2023). The Big Bang: How It All Began. In: Fascination Astronomy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66020-1_2

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