emanating

Whatever the metaphor one chooses, the basic story is that suddenly everything started all at once and moved very fast.

Some researchers believe the early Universe was a liquid.

Waves of energy and information struck out across nothing, and some of the waves came together into particles, and then into atoms and molecules and cells and so on.

Dinosaurs, Cleopatra, the oceans, the Moon; the whole Universe slowly came into being and it is what it is today, and it is still unfolding.

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