“Eighty years before 20th-century cosmologists hammered out the math, Edgar Allan Poe, it turns out, came up with a rudimentary version of contemporary science’s best guess for explaining how the universe began.
Departing from conventional wisdom of the day, which saw the universe as static and eternal, Poe insisted that it had exploded into being from a single ”primordial particle” in ”one instantaneous flash.”
(Source: The New York Times, via theboy-whoblockedhisownshot)
