This first proper episode of From Nothing to Us covers from the Big Bang to the first atoms in the universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation.

My website: https://uluscri.neocities.org/from-nothing/from-nothing-to-us.html

My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FromNothingToUs

You can contact me at uluscri@gmail.com for any questions or comments you may have, though you can send those over whatever app you’re listening to this on as well.

The intro, transition, and outro music is all from Messa da requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. Intro and outro are both from Dies irae. Recordings courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma via a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Link with all the recordings: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Requiem_(Verdi)

Further Reading:

• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01004

• http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/71262/1/54.pdf

• http://sten.astronomycafe.net/planck-era/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Timeline

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_early_universe#The_first_20_minutes

• https://books.rsc.org/books/edited-volume/2003/chapter/4583607/Origin-of-the-Universe-and-Planetary-Systems