And for the record, that's faster than the speed of light. But wait. Doesn't that break one of the Laws of Physics?Even school children know that you quote: you can't go faster than the speed of light.But actually there is a loophole there. You see nothing can go faster than light, nothing being empty space.

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Don't worry. This idea gives even the best minds in science a headache. But it's critical to understanding the early universe. Scientists think it took less than a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a second for the universe to expand from the size of an atom to a baseball.That may not sound like much, but it's like a golf ball expanding to the size of the earth in the same amount of time.

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That means it was expanding faster than the speed of light. That's fast. So many things were happening so fast in the early universe. Because everything was so close together that we needed a new unit of time to describe things.

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It's called 'Planck Time'. To understand just how short of 'Planck Time' is, consider this, there're more units of 'Planck Time' in one second than all the seconds since the Big Bang. The math is mind-blowing. There're more than 31 million seconds in a year and it's been 14 billion years since the Big Bang. So multiply 31,556,926 by 14 billion and what you get. It's a really big number.

新的时间单位就是“普朗克时间”j7k&[UQH%8CwO__Asp。要明白普朗克时间有多短，先要知道普朗克时间每秒包括的单位比大爆炸以来所有秒包括的单位都要多RIVQHgcbcfgeP。计算起来很费脑筋f8vj#f79)~T6s0K。每年有3千多万秒，自大爆炸已经有140亿年了i861Ddg1#Que8+FQR。140亿乘以31,556,926等于多少t|[LZ5G_70a[lQ6。一个巨大的数字hDzM|fnUXqYM_0。

It's a time scale that's so small that all human intuition goes out (of) the window. If we look at our watches and measure one second, we can ask how many 'Planck Times' is that. Well, it is a billion billion billion billion billion 'Planck Times'.

普朗克时间的时间段太小，超出了人类洞察力范畴1zpxV0hSi]。如果看表估量一秒钟，我们可以问这一秒钟的普朗克时间是多少x1s4@LoTQ)c。这么说吧，这一秒等于10的36次方普朗克时间b|G=AM|-W@mB9NoGZUBu。

So, now the Big Bang is only a few 'Planck Times' old in exploding mass of pure energy expanding faster than the speed of light. In the next few 'Planck Times', the universe as we know it will be born.

因此，大爆炸开始的一瞬大量纯能量以快于光速的速率爆发膨胀，这个过程所用的普朗时间很短Ag4aPHjFbR5UW0o~。接下来，在又一段很短的普朗克时间内宇宙就诞生了lB#UPD;F_o;-93。

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