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[Annis] Post Magno Sonitu

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English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term "Big Bang" during a talk for a March AD1949 (September 13,787,004,201PMS) BBC Radio broadcast, saying: "These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past" (that bit was pinched from WP) although Hoyle did not himself subscribe to the theory, preferring instead the Steady State model.

From such lowly beginings that bang got bigger and bigger until it encompassed all of space and time.
As such, it is the real begining of time (not to mention space) and so became the Temporal Absolute Zero—the proverbial 'Year Dot'.
Thus was born the Post Magno Sonitu era (strictly Annis Post Magno Sonitu, though the 'Annis' is usually dropped by gentleman scientists who like to say "PMS" and giggle).
The length of the year (or more properly anno) being standardised to that of the nascent Earth in 9,417,725,000PMS.
The rest is history (or rather silence, since despite the opening sequence of every Star Wars movie, you cant hear anything in space).



For some unfathomable reason Wikipedia doesn't have an article on PMS, so I advise against searching for it there.
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