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I believe the Big Bang played a part in the creation of the Earth

First the universe was created, via the now-famous "big bang". Before the big bang, scientists believe there was pure vacuum. By means of a random quantum fluctuation the universe 'tunnelled" from pure vacuum to what is called a false vacuum, a region of space that contains no matter or radiation but is not quite nothing. The space inside a bubble of false vacuum is curved, or warped, and a small amount of energy is stored in that curvature. This ostensible violation of energy conservation is allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for sufficiently small time intervals.

The bubble then inflated exponentially and its curvature energy transformed into matter and radiation. Inflation stopped and the more linear big bang expansion commenced.

Almost all the matter of the early universe was hydrogen, helium and light elements. These elments coalesced into stars, which gradually formed heavy elements by nuclear fusion, a natural process in all stars. Some of the earliest stars reached the end-point, where they exploded as super-novas, spewing out great volumes of heavy elements. These heavy elements were attracted towards other stars, such as our Sun, and went into orbit as gas clouds. Again, these clouds coalesced into solid objects - the planets, such as our world.

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