The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Used-Dimension8742 on 2024-12-02 04:57:28.

Original Title: TIL In 1848, Poe wrote a prose poem called Eureka, in which he speculated that the universe began from a single point that expanded outward. While not scientifically precise, his ideas eerily resemble modern concepts of the Big Bang nearly 80 years before it was proposed.