Now run the movie backwards . . .
Galaxies twice as far away are coming toward Earth twice as fast!
![inward.gif (3054 bytes)](images/inward.gif)
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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