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OCR: Yet the big bang model goes only SO far, and many fundamental mysteries remain What was the universe like before it was expanding? (No observation we have made allows us to look back beyond the moment at which the expansion began.) What will happen in the distant future when the last of the stars exhaust the supply of nuclear fuel? No one knows the answers yet. Our universe may be viewed in many lights by mystics theologians philosophers or scientists Ir science we adopt the plodding route: we accept only what is tested by experiment or observation Albert Einstein gave uS the now well- tested and accepted Theon of General Relativity which establishes the relations between mass, energy, space and time Einstein showed that a homogeneous distribution of matter in space fits nicely with his th ...