Carl Stilwell AKA CaLokie

THE STORY OF EVERYTHING* 

There was no "before" the beginning of our universebecause once upon a time there was no time** 

Before the moment the cosmos began 

there was no OUTSIDE 

The only place there was  

was INSIDE 

A very long time ago, the universe simply— 

A wop BOP a loo BOP a LOP bam bom BOOM—  burst into being 

An event which we call the big bang 

It was just a very tiny, ultra-hot fog of energy 

Then it expanded— 

The universe simply inflated into EXISTENCE  

From smaller than an ATOM to about the size of an orange

in less than a TRILLIONTH of a second 

Within 100 seconds, it was as big as our solar system

trillions of miles across 

While this was happening, the pure energy of the cosmosbegan to cool and create MATTER in the form of countlesstrillions of SUBATOMIC PARTICLES—the first stuff there ever wasThe same kind of stuff which makes us 

The rest were made of the opposite of matter—ANTIMATTERWhen the two encounter, they destroy each other in a flash of energy

Matter matters  

Nothing matters 

Yes, it does  

No, it doesn’t  

Beyond doubt  

No way 

Yes way  

Negative 

Positive  

Nonexistence 

Existence  

Nothing 

Something  

Fortunately, there was just a bit more MATTER than ANTIMATTERJust one in a billion particles of stuff survived 

Which was lucky for us, because that residue Is what 

our present-day universe is made of 

When the cosmos was 10 minutes old, It was alreadythousands of light-years in diameter 

After that, everything spread out  

and cooled for about 330,000 years 

When, finally, the fog cleared,  

the lights of the universe were switched on 

and before you knew it— 

Galaxies filled with stars orbited by  

Planets orbited by 

Moons 

And on Mother Earth emerged 

Algae 

Plants  

Animals 

Us 

Mother Earth rotates on her axis 24 hours 

Morning, afternoon, evening and night 

She orbits the sun 365 and 1/4th days 

Spring, summer, fall and winter 

East, South, West and North 

Infant, youth, adult and elder 

The sun our Mother revolves around is one of  

100–400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

which is one of  over two trillion galaxies

whirling around supermassive

black holes located at their their cores 

95% of the universe is dark matter and energyGalaxies, stars, planets, plants, animals and usmake up only 5% of the visible universe 

All this matter of mind boggling size  

had to be built 

atom  

by  

atom 

The Dine people call the universe we see 

and the one we don’t 

Father Sky

* Stephan Hawking from film documentary, Into the Universe

With Stephen Hawking

**John D. Barrow 

Father Sky and Mother Earth