There was no light in our Universe for the first two hundred million years after it was created, only darkness. The first stars didn’t “turn on” until fully two hundred million years had elapsed. That’s right, you heard me correctly—Two hundred million years! For two hundred million years, the place we now inhabit and call home was nothing more than a vast expanse of Negro nothingness—a pitch-black vacuum devoid of anything to illuminate our cosmic landscape. And then—as though by “black” magic—the first stars started blinking on to show the way for everything that followed. Think of said scenario the next time your future looks so bleak there doesn’t appear to be even so much as a soupcon of light entering your life. Because if you had been alive at a much earlier time in the history of our Universe, there was no light and consequently no dreams or visions to usher in mankind and henceforth carry it forward into the unknown, unmapped future.
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