What Happened in the First Fraction of a Second After the Big Bang?

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]To understand this mystery, >> [music] >> we need to travel back to the beginning of everything.

[00:00:05]13.8 billion years ago, the universe was born. [music] Not as an explosion inside space, but as the expansion of space itself.

[00:00:13]Everything existed inside an unimaginably hot point. No stars, no [music] galaxies, no planets, no atoms, only heat, >> [music] >> pressure, and chaos.

[00:00:25]Then suddenly, expansion. Space itself stretched outward faster than light. The newborn universe became a burning ocean of energy.

[00:00:35]>> [music] >> So hot, light itself could not escape.