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There are a number of reasons to suspect that the universe started from a point: 1) All the distant galaxies are headed away from us, so 13.7 billion years ago they were in one spot.. 2) The macro-universe is no different on opposite sides. Nothing has had the time to smooth out both sides. 3) The Microwave background noise is everywhere, and it is an echo of the "Big Bang" (sort of...). So how did the universe get from a tiny point to what we have now? Well the best theory is that in the first second of the Big Bang, SPACE (not matter) inflated tremendously fast. This is a complicated subject, but much is know about what happened, and many pieces of evidence point in this direction.

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