Glossary Welcome antipodal atom Bach, Johann Sebastian bandwidth Big Bang Theory Buddha Buddhism catalyst cell Church cross-pollinate Dervish Deuter Earth Ekagrata electron epiphanic extrapolate fractal hadith hologram Khan, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Pir Zia Kirlian photography light year magnetic field maya molecule Mosque n-dimensional Nirvana Nirvitarka peri-personal perspicacity Pir o Murshid quintessence Reincarnation retina Samadhi Satipathana Shabistari, Mahmood stalwart Synagogue transducer Vichara Vitarka wave interference Big Bang Theory           Go back Science 10 to 20 billion years ago the Universe was born in the sudden explosion of a point of immense density smaller than the nucleus of an atom, according to the Big Bang Theory. The theory claims that this "bang" was also the birth of time, space, matter, energy and the laws of physics. Everything that is was there at the beginning, the theory continues, in a furiously combustive state trillions of degrees hot where almost everything was light. Since that moment everything has spun away, cooling over billions of years of travel in the chilly void of space, allowing for the emergence of complexity—of form and life. Though much of the science developed in the 20th century supports this theory, including the work of Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble, it is not accepted by some modern cosmologists who are too unsettled by the unanswered questions: What came before the bang, why did it bang and how has such delicate complexity come to exist since then in things like mathematics and life?