<p><pre><code>  You might think it natural, for instance, to see all 
  these galaxies as more or less evenly spread out across
  the Universe. But you’d be wrong.
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Gee, maybe something like that might point to the idea that, while the big bang surely was a thing, it wasn&#x27;t actually the <i>very first</i> thing. Just the first thing (or rather the oldest thing) our grasp of science has been able to latch onto. But woah, woah, woah! Who would <i>dare</i> hypothesize such a thing without extraordinary evidence? A heretic, that&#x27;s who!