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The Modern Genesis

The Big Bang Theory is a wonderful story, on many levels. It is a story of human achievement. It is a story of the wonder of discovery. It is the story of our closest pass to understanding the truth of the universe in all our history so far. But all of those stories are not this story. This is a story of Creation.

The Big Bang itself, in its basic form, is not very hard to understand. It involves concepts that might seem complicated, but, really, are not. It is important to understand, though, before we begin, that the Big Bang, like Genesis, is a myth, and equally scientific.

It is our modern creation story, and, like its ancient predecessor, today's true believers strive with all their hearts and souls to "prove" it true in the face of uncompromising fact. However, whether you believe or not, whether you agree or not, or whether you understand the evidence for and against, it is still a lovely story.

The Big Bang begins at the ultimate beginning - the dawn of time itself. About 14 Billion years ago, the great clock of the universe began to tick for the first time.

Where before there was nothing, a void so empty that even nothing makes it sound full, there was, in a single instant, suddenly, everything.

Time and space sprang into existence, throughout all the titanic span of the universe, all at once. This is the instant of the Singularity. Unlike today's singularities, called Black Holes by men, this was a singularity of time, rather than one of space. It did not explode from a place, but, instead, all places came at once from it.

It was a moment of pure energy, intense heat, and chaos. There was no matter, no electromagnetism, and, for the briefest instant, no Physics. Then, order began to impose function to follow the formation, and reality followed.

Time exerted its influence, and all of creation came to heel. From that moment on, events would be separate from each other by both distance and sequence. Cause and effect, at once, had meaning, and so followed reality. Things, for the first time, began to make sense.

What happened in that timeless instant, where time, space, and order were all jumbled, all interchangeable, we may never know. It may have been an eternity, or the finest sliver of a second. But what happened during that moment would set the course of the universe for all time.

There was a new power in the cosmos. Order, the rules we now call the Laws of Physics, imposed their will on events. First, there was only one force to the universe,

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