Pre-fermentation cold soaking or cold maceration is a way to extract color and flavor from grape skins. Extraction also occurs during fermentation, of course, but many winemakers feel cold soaking brings out different, and beneficial, aspects of the grapes.
This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Current evidence suggests that the universe is expanding and that matter and space expanded violently and rapidly from a very small initial âpointâ. This has also led to the theory that the universe began with a âbig bangâ.
So if the Universe is now 13.7 billion years old, light can only have traveled a distance of 13.7 billion light-years since the beginning of time. Thus, the part of the Universe we can observe (the Visible Universe) lies within a sphere with a radius of 13.7 billion light years centered around the Earth. We can only observe 13.7 billion light years of the Universe. [2.10a] Down the Rabbit Hole: Olbers' Paradox.