title: A Chronology of Our Universe: " A Timeline of Cosmological & Astronomical Events "
author:  Edited by Paul F. Kisak 
description: The editor has degrees in Engineering Physics &amp; Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan and is an Engineer &amp; Former Intelligence Officer for the CIA &amp; US Intelligence Community and was President of an award-winning Defense Contracting Company. He has authored several books, edited numerous books and has written over 75 Technical, Classified &amp; Unclassified papers, Articles &amp; Essays. He has authored several books and has been a Contributing Author for The International Encyclopedia on Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and written several award-winning software manuals that have been sold in more than a dozen countries. He has also appeared in Marquis Whos Who in the World &amp; Whos Who in Science &amp; Engineering and continues to edit and write.
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  For Ron
  
  
  With grateful thanks to Sue Freestone and Michael
  
  
  Bywater for their support, help and constructive abuse.
  
  
  Anything that happens, happens.
  
  
  Anything that, in happening, causes something else to
  
  
  happen, causes something else to happen.
  
  
  Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
  
  
  It doesn’t do it in chronological order, though.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## **1**
  
  
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  The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons:
  partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little
  muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening
  anyway.
  
  
  One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties
  involved in trying to exceed it. You can’t. Nothing travels faster than the
  speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own
  special laws. The Hin