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In many creation myths—including some in China, Japan, and especially India (see Brahmā)—the great precreation void takes the form of an egg, often a golden one. The analogy between cosmic birth and earthly birth is obvious here. The cosmic egg story seems to answer the perennial chicken versus egg argument.
The cosmic egg is a concept developed in the 1930s and explored by theoreticians during the following two decades. The idea comes from a perceived need to reconcile Edwin Hubble's observation of an expanding universe (which is also predicted by Einstein's equations of general relativity) with the notion that the universe must be eternally old.
Current cosmological models maintain that many billions of years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a volume about thirty times the size of our sun, from which it expanded to its current state (the Big Bang), the so-called cosmic egg.
Similarly, the Hindu concepts of Hiranyagarbha (golden womb) and brahmanda (the first egg), are comparable world egg origin systems.
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The cosmic egg concept has caught the imagination of many science fiction and fantasy writers, including the creators of the Marvel Comics character Galactus. Galactus was the sole-survivor of the previous Big Crunch who, preserved in the cosmic egg, emerged as a being of immense power in the present universe. The cosmic egg concept was also used by DC Comics and Marvel comics in their Avengers/JLA crossover, in which it was used to capture their mutual enemy Krona.
"The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" is a book by Joseph Chilton Pearce, Thom Hartmann. The same title was used by musicologists Alan and Steve Freeman for their encyclopedia of Krautrock and Kosmische music, German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
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