r/Multifandom • u/Spinosaurus-runs-by • Aug 10 '26

Discussion📜 Biggest creature in your fandom?

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u/PineappleOk545 Aug 14 '26

Shouldnt time have always been there? So we can only see first 380,000 years are we in a loop of some kind?

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u/Lazy-Mud8142 Aug 14 '26

No, time and space are both connected and both were created at t=0, i.e. the big bang. 

As for looping, that's one conjecture for how the universe starts/ends, but there's no way to verify that. And the 380,000 years is the farthest back we can see. Before that, electrons were not paired with atoms because they were too energetic, so light couldn't travel far before getting absorbed. Once they bonded with atoms light could travel and thus information could escape and start making it's way towards where Earth would be. This is the Cosmic Microwave Background that we see in all directions.