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Originally Posted by Urzu 7
I have a question and I think someone here would know it. I once heard something along the lines of this: "If the big bang had happened to a millionth of a degree off from what it did, the universe would have been much different and life on Earth wouldn't be here". Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm guessing by a millionth of a degree off, it just means how things initially expanded at the very beginning. Is this true? Is millionth the right number? Or was it billionth?
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degree isn't really the right term here... but that can be about either the ratio of matter / anti-matter, or more commonly the distribution pattern of matters that eventually allowed galaxies to form.