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A COSMIC REPORT.
Timothy Ferris sums up the universe in "The Whole Shebang."
Ferris: The Whole Shebang 


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C. Pritchard of Philadelphia, PA asks:

Projecting backward in time in relation to the current position of our solar system or our galaxy what was the appropriate location of the Big Bang?

Timothy Ferris responds:

The big bang happened everywhere. At Time Zero, all places were the same place.

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