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Old 04-August-2005, 07:36 PM
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The big bang can be modeled back to the "Planck length", after which quantum effects take over and no modeling can be done. At that point the universe was 1.6 * 10^-35 meters in diameter. This is 10^21 times smaller than an atomic nucleus.
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