The Big Bang Theory

In the beginning, the universe was hot and expanding, and was a mere cauldron cooking matter-antimatter pairs in a battle for survival. Clashing against each other, as matter creates, antimatter annihilates. As the universe began to cool, matters very subtly outweighed antimatter leading to the creation of the universe as we know it. All this happened under \(10^{-43}\) second of time.¹

Billion years later when the universe was cool enough, stars were formed and underwent thermonuclear fusion. Some thrived but some exploded due to high-mass, scattering their chemically rich bodies across the universe. Consequently, galaxies, the Milky Way, and the Sun were born.

The gas clouds from which the Sun was created, formed planets that orbits around it. Earth, not too far away and not too close from the Sun to freeze or to evaporate the ocean, produced life in its primordial form. Bacteria. These anaerobic organisms sets the Earth’s environment by excreting enough oxygen for aerobic organisms to live and breath in, and dominate the ocean and the surface of the earth. Life began as we know it. Outsized dinosaurs dominate. Stray asteroids hit the Earth, leading to the end of Cretaceous Periods. Intelligent mammals flourished. Homo Sapiens thrived.