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The Big Bang
This animated clip explains how the Big Bang was not really big and it was not really a bang. We learn that the term Big Bang was coined in 1949, by Fred Hoyle, as a way of sarcastically dismissing the theory. However, observations of the expanding universe tell us that the universe did start out from a single point, around 13.7 billion years ago.
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