The Autobiography of Light

The Big Bang: A day without yesterday

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Light is therefore not only our daily companion in the quest for beauty in the world or art. With its colour transformations, when it reaches us from the stars, it has also indicated the great, well-kept secret of the Universe: its birth at a specific time in the past. And the cataclysmic Bang, which was the reason for its birth, left deep traces in the heavens. These traces are again some light, this time an overwhelming and unexpected fossil of light.