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We observe that distant galaxies are moving away from us |
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They must have been closer together in the past |
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It was the beginning of the universe |
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And of time itself |
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Anything that happened before the big bang |
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Could not affect what happened after |
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The poetry of the expanding universe |
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The poetry of the complexity of life |
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We're not normally equipped to understand |
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And science gives it to us |
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Science is opening your eyes |
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To the wonderfulness of what's there |
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Science is opening your eyes |
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To the poetry of the expanding universe |
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The early cosmos was everywhere white hot |
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But then as time passed |
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The radiation expanded and cooled |
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Then little pockets of gas began to grow |
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Steadily brightening, we call them the galaxies |
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In the big bang we had equal amounts of matter and anti-matter |
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And as soon as they met each other, |
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They annihilated together |
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And this battle played out |
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Whilst the universe expanded |
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In its first minute of existence |
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It's not all that hard to detect the big bang |
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All you need to do is change the channel |
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Until you come between two stations |
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About one percent of the snow and noise |
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Comes from the big bang itself |
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We're all eavesdropping |
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On the birth pangs of the cosmos |
