Now run the movie backwards . . .

Galaxies twice as far away are coming toward Earth twice as fast!

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Everything was at the same place at the same time
about 14 billion years ago!

The expansion of the universe
(all of space, time, and matter)
began in a BIG BANG,
starting from a very small, hot, dense beginning
about 14 billion years ago.

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