Big Bang! photo collage.
(5x49 small format photographs)
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." - Stephen Hawking.
The Bang! (2018) photo collage.
The whole universe was compressed into a single superdense minute point. This minute point Exploded! That explosion of energy, is what we call, The Big Bang!
Inflation (2018) photo collage.
In a fraction of a second, the energy and heat from the Bang! rapidly shot outward. This exponential expansion created the early universe.
Primordial soup (2018) photo collage.
The universe began a superheated phase called primordial soup. The heat was so high that particles from the Big Bang couldn't form mass or atoms. Because of this, neutrons, protons and electrons started to join.
Expansion (2018) photo collage.
The universe we recognize today started to form. The particles began to cool down and spread out, the electrons, neutrons and protons began to come together and create atoms. These atoms then eventually combined to create mass, e.g: stars, planets, galaxies.
Space (2018) photo collage.
Ordinary, observable matter (stars and planets) makes up only 5% of the universe. The other 95% universe is made up of invisible dark energy (68%) and dark matter (27%). That means there is 95% of the universe that we don't know about yet.