Arakai Kelman

The Big Bang Theory

In the beginning the big bang created the heavens

The universe was formless and infinitesimal. Plasma hotter than a thousand suns
permeated the explosively expanding fabric of space.
Inflation slowed, the universe cooled, and there were protons and neutrons.

The particles were good; and were differentiated from anti-particles, becoming ever so
slightly more abundant.
The particles were called matter, and the anti-particles were called anti-matter, and
there was the beginning and there was the ending of the first millisecond.

Temperatures plunged as space grew, and matter annihilated anti-matter. Nearly all
particles were wiped from the universe, but quadrillions upon quadrillions of photons
remained.
And there were neutrons that bonded with the protons.

And there was ionized hydrogen and deuterium, with only a single proton for each.
And there was the beginning and there was the ending of the first four minutes.

And the Universe cooled still more so that electrons could orbit protons, and the first
stable atom was born.
Photons dislocated from matter, propagating through space for all eternity, to be called
the cosmic background radiation.

And there were fluctuations in the uniformity of matter, with gravity seeding galaxies
across a billion light years.

And from gas and dust, great lights formed in the expanse of the heavens, called the
stars, which mark the seasons.
And they gave their light upon many trillions of coalescing planets.
And so too did the Earth form from the rotating dust cloud of the solar nebula, and the
Sun gave it warmth.

And the Sun governed the day and the night, and it was good.
There was the beginning and there was the ending, the first nine billion years.