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Cosmic egg
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The cosmic egg is a concept developed in the 1930s and explored by theoreticians during the following two decades. The idea comes from a perceived need to reconcile Edwin Hubble's observation of an expanding universe (which is also predicted by Einstein's equations of general relativity) with the notion that the universe must be eternally old.
Current cosmological models maintain that many billions of years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a volume about thirty times the size of our sun, from which it expanded to its current state (the Big Bang), the so-called cosmic egg.
The Hindu concepts of Hiranyagarbha (golden womb) and brahmanda (the first egg), are similar theories in existence since before the time of Christ.
The cosmic egg concept has caught the imagination of many science fiction and fantasy writers, including the creators of the Marvel Comics character Galactus. Galactus was the sole-survivor of the previous Big Crunch who, preserved in the cosmic egg, emerged as a being of immense power in the present universe.
"The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" is a book by Joseph Chilton Pearce, Thom Hartmann.
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