Richard Collins: Upheaval can bring about an explosion of new life

Our universe, it seems, came into existence in the Big Bang 13.7bn years ago.

Mon, 18 Jun, 2018 - 01:00

By Richard Collins

Our universe, it seems, came into existence in the Big Bang 13.7bn years ago. Ten billion years later, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, the newly formed Earth collided with a sister planet, resulting in our moon.

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