If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: "destiny" should read "density.
The word is the making of the world
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
Evolution, climate change, and the construction of the physical universe down to its atoms are processes that we measure in millions or billions of years.
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.
The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.