Your Place in the Universe by Paul M. Sutter

Author:Paul M. Sutter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633884731
Publisher: Prometheus Books

Compare yourself at ten years old and twenty years old. Chances are you're a radically different person. Compare yourself at twenty versus thirty. You're probably a little rounder around the middle but otherwise unchanged. That's what puberty does—it transforms you from a kid into a protoadult. The Epoch of Reionization was when the universe finally grew up. Done were the days of wild phase transitions and late-night plasma parties. In were the days of mortgage payments and bad backs.

In the dark ages, the universe was threaded with a dense, warm soup of neutral gas. If you could transport yourself there, it would look totally unfamiliar and alien, as strange as any of the earlier epochs. After the cosmic dawn and reionization, the universe looked like…the universe. Vast, dark, transparent, and dotted with galaxies swirling with billions of glittering stars. Much like you since your twentieth birthday, it hasn't physically changed much since then, at least in comparison to younger days.

After a billion years, after the last of the neutral gas had been swept away and left to cower in small pockets inside galaxies, after the cosmos had once again been filled with light and heat and warmth, the greatest structure in the universe began to coalesce.

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