According to a top TV scientist, in the beginning there was ‘empty space’ and ‘energy’. After a big bang, the universe started out as a ‘featureless void’. But emerging particles ‘organised themselves into the universe we see today’ by ‘clumping together’ because of ‘deviation’ from perfect smoothness in ‘warped’ space. Meanwhile, cosmic light particles are zooming along in straight lines and still going strong, creating billions of other universes. This ‘astonishing idea’ is the ‘cornerstone of modern cosmology’. Ancient, too.
According to the farmer-poet Hesiod (7th century bc), in the beginning there was Khaos (‘empty space’) and the world was ‘featureless void’, till the ‘energy’ was supplied by Eros, ‘Lust’, to populate it with mountains, seas, etc. Epicurus (4th century bc) was worried about this: ‘when he was still young, he asked the schoolmaster what the Khaos came from if it came first.
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