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From a hot, dense, uniform state in its earliest moments, our entire known Universe arose. These unavoidable steps made it all possible.

Key Takeaways

• At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe had almost unlimited potential: with a tremendous amount of energy inherent to an enormous number of fast-moving quanta of a variety of species.

• As time elapsed, however, the Universe expanded and cooled, with all of the quanta within the cosmos not only suffering the consequences, but stepping down in energy and increasing the total entropy of the Universe.

• What we wind up with, in the aftermath of this early, violent history, is a Universe ready to form atoms, molecules, stars, and later on, rocky planets and life. Here’s how it all unfolds.