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the universe's origin story, minus the bang, the big, and any actual explosion.
means the moment roughly 13.8 billion years ago when space itself began expanding from an extremely hot, dense state, and everything since then has just been the aftermath cooling off.
from coined in 1949 by astronomer fred hoyle, on the bbc radio, as a dismissive jab at a theory he didn't believe in — the name stuck long after his skepticism didn't.
no centerexploded everywhere at once, not from one point
no explosionspace expanded, nothing blew up into it
leftover glowcosmic microwave background is its afterimage, still detectable
named by a skeptichoyle preferred steady state theory instead