[Hawking] We observe that distant galaxies are moving away from us They must have been closer together in the past It was the beginning of the universe And of time itself Anything that happened before the big bang Could not affect what happened after [Dawkins] The poetry of the expanding universe The poetry of the complexity of life We're not normally equipped to understand And science gives it to us Science is opening your eyes To the wonderfulness of what's there Science is opening your eyes To the poetry of the expanding universe [Sagan] The early cosmos was everywhere white hot But then as time pa**ed
The radiation expanded and cooled Then little pockets of gas began to grow Steadily brightening, we call them the galaxies [Shears] In the big bang we had equal amounts of matter and anti-matter And as soon as they met each other, They annihilated together And this battle played out Whilst the universe expanded In its first minute of existence [DeGra**e Tyson] It's not all that hard to detect the big bang All you need to do is change the channel Until you come between two stations About one percent of the snow and noise Comes from the big bang itself We're all eavesdropping On the birth pangs of the cosmos