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NEW SCIENTIST: THE ORIGIN OF (ALMOST) EVERYTHING John Man The star of the momentWhen Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point, have been on top of one another. This discovery transformed the debate about one of the most fundamental questions of human existence how did the universe begin? Every society has stories about