By Dava Sobel

I’ve long been entranced by space, ever since I was a little kid. There occured many occasions, perhaps before I hit double figures, where my child’s mind would try to get my head around the fact that before there was nothing … there was something.

It was phenomenal to me to envisage that way back when, before people, before the things from which people spawned, before ooze, before rocks and desert, when there was nothing at all … there was something.

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