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A Short History of Nearly Everything Study Guide

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by Bill Bryson
About 84 pages (25,267 words)
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Protons are so small that the dot in a printed letter i contains 5,000 million of them. The Big Bang, which is believed to be the origin of the universe, occurred when all existing matter was squeezed into a dot smaller than one proton. This space, so tiny it has no dimensions at all, is called a singularity. It's meaningless to discuss time and space in relation to singularities, for time didn't exist prior to the Big Bang, and neither did space. (read more)
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