Peder
Well-Known Member
Prologue
What came before?
That endless word: before.
Before.
Before all.
Before all and everything
Before the beginning
Before us, the planets, galaxies, oldest stars, burnt out stars
Before our primordial Cosmos even began.
Before the reach of our best equations of science
Before the reach of our most powerful atom smashers
Before even protons and neutrons and all the elements
Before anything we can imagine
Before even the beginning of our own space and time
Before anything science can explain
And before even that moment -- for it was a moment --
And even before that before
And even that before.
There was a realm -- must have been a realm --
A realm of fundamental particles and forces
The ultimate micro-granules for composition of all Creation
Of all that exists, and lives, and has its being
Electrons, quarks, photons, gluons, bosons
The small zoo of The Standard Model
A dozen kinds of particles,
Four kinds of forces. That's all.
Moving at incredible velocities, extremely hot,
Randomly among each other colliding
Bouncing, not sticking, unconnected,
And throughout this pre-primordial realm,
The all-pervasive force of gravity
Attracting the infinitesimal masses of all particles
Gathering them toward each other
Collapsing them tighter and tighter,
The entire mass of a Cosmos compressed into the size of a fist
Temperature rising way above the hottest densest stars ever known
Until finally gravity could no longer squeeze the mass smaller
And the particles' enormous expansive forces broke free
Into the supremely wondrous Event of all Events
A mammoth nuclear explosion,
Creation event for our entire Cosmos.
What came before?
That endless word: before.
Before.
Before all.
Before all and everything
Before the beginning
Before us, the planets, galaxies, oldest stars, burnt out stars
Before our primordial Cosmos even began.
Before the reach of our best equations of science
Before the reach of our most powerful atom smashers
Before even protons and neutrons and all the elements
Before anything we can imagine
Before even the beginning of our own space and time
Before anything science can explain
And before even that moment -- for it was a moment --
And even before that before
And even that before.
There was a realm -- must have been a realm --
A realm of fundamental particles and forces
The ultimate micro-granules for composition of all Creation
Of all that exists, and lives, and has its being
Electrons, quarks, photons, gluons, bosons
The small zoo of The Standard Model
A dozen kinds of particles,
Four kinds of forces. That's all.
Moving at incredible velocities, extremely hot,
Randomly among each other colliding
Bouncing, not sticking, unconnected,
And throughout this pre-primordial realm,
The all-pervasive force of gravity
Attracting the infinitesimal masses of all particles
Gathering them toward each other
Collapsing them tighter and tighter,
The entire mass of a Cosmos compressed into the size of a fist
Temperature rising way above the hottest densest stars ever known
Until finally gravity could no longer squeeze the mass smaller
And the particles' enormous expansive forces broke free
Into the supremely wondrous Event of all Events
A mammoth nuclear explosion,
Creation event for our entire Cosmos.
