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In the beginning before time, there is God. Described as an Eternal Spirit, God dwells the vastness of a realm of pure light. This realm, called Eternity, is a limitless universe of the purest of the pure, crystal-clear life-giving energies. These energies exist as waves. It has no boundaries and no beginning. [1]God inhabits this entire universe, filling it with His glory.

At one point, God decided to create the heavens. He created a mirror-image of Himself which He called Wisdom (or some call it the Spirit). God ordered Wisdom to go out of His realm and create another universe, smaller than Eternity.

Wisdom then set out to create the heavens. Multiple versions suddenly emerged with God choosing just one. [2]God planned this universe to become the country of spiritual beings, another pure dimension. It was to be a spiritual Kingdom, to be administered by Wisdom and peopled with pure spirits.

From an everlasting fire emanating from God’s glory, heaven’s denizens were created: angels, cherubims and heavenly beasts who were created to worship the Eternal Spirit. Their purpose is simple: worship the Eternal God forever.

At the northernmost of this Kingdom, Wisdom created Mount Zion. On top of this mountain, Wisdom created the House of God with seven pillars. At the center of this House, we see a fountain of water. Described as waters of life, the source of this fountain can be seen to be directly above it, from the realm of God Himself. A throne can also be seen at the midst of the House. Four powerful Spirits guard this throne. From the House, the water flows down the mountain to a river.

Along the river, we see a shining City. Called the True Jerusalem, this city is the true City of God. Its inhabitants are lesser gods, called angels and cherubims.

At some point in heaven’s time, one of the lesser gods, whom God previously favored among His creations, rebelled. Lucifer, which Wisdom named as the son of the Morning, was so engrossed with his beauty, plotted to dislodge Wisdom as heaven’s appointed administrator. With his cunning tongue, he deceived many of heaven’s citizens to rebel against Wisdom. Leading an army of angels, Lucifer tried to ascend the House of God and occupy the throne as heaven’s king. They were repulsed by an army led by the archangel Michael. The defeated heavenly beings were gathered in one place.

 

Their sin reached God in His realm. An angry God ordered their deportment from heaven, which was out of God’s pure glory. Since the heavens cannot be filled with these rebellious creatures, God ordered Wisdom to create an antiverse—a material universe which Lucifer and his minions would inhabit until the time it contracts or dies. Time was created, signifying a definitive death of creation as punishment of sin. [3]

 

Thus, the concept of the material or known universe was born.

 

Dropping a small atom the size of a pebble[4] some 13.6 billion earth years ago in heaven, this atom violently collided with light, creating seven ripples (or now what we call `dimensions’). Wisdom then chose one circle (or dimension) which became the known universe. The resultant circle in heaven caused a cosmic collision of light and atoms, creating electrons and positrons. Science called this event the “Big Bang”. The Universe is about 1000 times smaller than its present size. Light can propagate without hindrance: the Universe suddenly becomes transparent. The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation that we detect today is that ‘first light’.

 

The cosmic collision created multiple versions of one universe, like waves.[5] Within just a few seconds after the Big Bang, a single history had already come to dominate the Universe. This early quantum mixture came from a superposition of ever more different versions of the known universe, instead of a unique history.

 

In a second, this universe grew to a thousand times the size of our Solar system and the temperature drops to 1 MeV, equal to 10,000 million degrees. Neutrons and protons combine to form the first nuclei: first deuterium, then helium and other helium. This event is called in physics as the primordial nucleosynthesis, lasting several minutes.

 

Three minutes past after the Big Bang, the temperature of the universe remained in the thousand million degrees, still too hot for atomic nuclei to capture electrons and form real elements.

 

The Universe keeps expanding. It is too hot yet for electrons to be captured by the atomic nuclei. Electrons wander freely and are therefore able to interact with the photons (light ‘particles’) as a result, light is trapped and cannot propagate more than a very short distance before encountering an electron. Therefore the Universe is opaque.

 

But about 300 000 years later, the Universe has cooled enough (to some 3000°C) to allow protons to capture electrons, and form neutral hydrogen atoms (in a phenomenon called ‘recombination’ or ‘decoupling’).

 

Three billion earth years past and we see the universe still expanding yet dropping its temperature. This allowed the elementary particles to suddenly merged together in one gaseous state with high-temperature fluidity. A fraction of a second, these elementary particles formed into fermionic matter or what scientists called a soup of quark-gluon plasma. This soup lasted for mere microseconds as the quarks and gluons joined in various combinations while the universe expanded and cooled.

 

As everything is created in pairs, the resulting mixture created matter and its mirror-image, the antimatter, in equal amounts. Wisdom then intervened to cause matter and antimatter to annihilate each other. The resultant Charge Parity (CP) violation produced dark energy, expanding the known universe as we see today.

 

During this period, the inflation process began and in an infinitesimal fraction of a second, this cosmos becomes extremely large. Dark energy caused the dissymmetry in relativity. Wisdom then allowed the physical quantum laws to expand the universe at the rate we see today. It directed dark energy to maintain equilibrium between celestial elements.

 

Wisdom then stretched the universe by allowing its mean energy density to equal its critical density. This is equivalent to a mass density of 9.9 x 10-30 g/cm3, which is equivalent to only 5.9 protons per cubic meter. Of this total density, we now know the breakdown to be:

 

·        4% Atoms, 23% Cold Dark Matter, 73% Dark Energy. Thus 96% of the energy density in the universe is in a form that has never been directly detected in the laboratory. The actual density of atoms is equivalent to roughly 1 proton per 4 cubic meters.

·        Fast moving neutrinos do not play any major role in the evolution of structure in the universe. They would have prevented the early clumping of gas in the universe, delaying the emergence of the first stars, in conflict with the new WMAP data.

·        The data places new constraints on the Dark Energy. It seems more like a “cosmological constant” than a negative-pressure energy field called “quintessence”. But quintessence is not ruled out.

 

When it is at a temperature of 1000 GeV (about 10 million million degrees), the forces of nature assume their present properties (such as gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces) and the ‘quarks’, the elementary particles that are the building blocks of matter, wander freely.

 

The Universe is roughly the size of our Solar System today, and the temperature drops to 1 GeV (10 thousand million degrees). It is cool enough for quarks to combine and make the particles in the atomic nucleus, protons and neutrons. These particles are called hadrons, so this period is often called the ‘quark-hadron transition’.

 

The rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang magnified these tiny imbalances, said Bertschinger, with gravity causing matter — both dark and bright — to congeal around the unbalanced areas.

 

The dark matter condensed first because its intangible nature makes it frictionless. Ordinary matter was slower to congeal because its momentum was dampened by colliding with itself and with particles of cosmic radiation. But the gravity of dark matter eventually pulled the bright matter along in its wake.

 

“The normal matter flows gravitationally into this sort of dark matter scaffolding,” said Massey, “and is constructed within that into the galaxy and the stars we see today.”

 

The dark matter and its gravity shaped bright matter in a manner loosely reminiscent of how the texture of the ground shapes puddles of rainwater. As the “puddles” started to form in the early universe, they began to exert gravity themselves, making for bigger puddles.

 

“Gravity is an attractive force. It builds little things into medium-sized things, medium-sized things into big things, and over time it builds up the structures,” said Eric Linder, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Over time, the gravity from the medium-sized and large structures that formed first began pulling on matter from every direction. Since dark matter is frictionless, it was twisted and shaped by gravity alone into increasingly ornate and complex shapes — clumps, clusters, and what Massey calls “filaments.”

 

The Universe is about 1000 times smaller than its present size. Light can propagate without hindrance: the Universe suddenly becomes transparent. The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation that we detect today is that ‘first light’.

 

Soon after recombination (The Dark Age)

 

The matter is now cool and luminous. Initial ‘clots’ of matter start to grow by gravitational attraction. This process is still unknown, but involves both the matter that we can see (’baryons’) and so-called ‘Dark Matter’.

 

The first stars form when the lumps of matter grow to about 10 million times the mass of our Sun, when the Universe is about one thirtieth of its current size. The lumps of matter (containing stars) coalesce to form galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

 

The first stars produce lots of ultraviolet radiation which ionises most of the neutral hydrogen (that is, liberating the electrons from the protons), thereby ending the so-called ‘Dark age’ of the Universe.

 

1000 million years after the Big Bang

 

The Universe is a fifth of its present size. Observations indicate that there are already fully formed galaxies. Therefore galaxy formation must have started much earlier. When the Universe is half its present size, the nuclear reactions inside the stars have already produced most of the chemical elements that are needed to make Earth-like planets.

 

10 000 million years after the Big Bang

 

About 5000 million years ago, our Sun was formed from the collapse of a cloud of dust and gas, producing a very average- looking star.

 

The remnants from the formation of the Sun, swirling in a disk around our infant star, gradually coalesce into the planets that form part of our Solar System. 4500 million years ago, the Earth and the inner planets form with rocky mantles and molten interiors, while more distant planets become gaseous giants.

 

Around 700 million years ago, one of the worlds created, the earth, was chosen for unknown reasons. Formless and unoccupied (void), earth was a veritable soup of hazardous elements yet with water. From above the circle of the earth, Wisdom came down riding in the heights of the heavens. Seeing the earth without form and void, Wisdom’s glorious light merged with elementary particles existing in the earth. Since wisdom’s glory is life-giving, it merged in the atmosphere creating bacteria. This bacteria produced carbon dioxide, effectively shielding the earth from harmful radioactivity. Afterwards, oxygen was created. Bacteria then merged with water. Millions of microscopic creatures were produced from the resultant mixture of bacteria and water. After 3,800 million years, these microscopic creatures form the islands and developed into multicelled creatures.

Meanwhile, Wisdom created the winds. The winds caused the waters to converged into some places, the resultant action leading to the creation of mountains. With the emergence of dry land, these multicelled creatures then inhabited the land, creating terrestrial creatures. Millions of years more, and we see the development of creatures.

From the ground, which teems with life, Wisdom scooped up a lump of earth and formed man. What this means is that it could mean that Wisdom saw a creature existing in the earth (since all creatures came from the ground, scientifically). Like a potter, Wisdom shaped the wondrous body of man, and breathe life into its nostrils from his sleeves.

 

[1] Is it possible for this universe to have no beginning? Yes. Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn’t in fact even exist. Hawking, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleague Thomas Hertog of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, are about to publish a paper claiming that the Universe had no unique beginning. Instead, they argue, it began in just about every way imaginable (and maybe some that aren’t).

[2] Remember that the realm which God dwells is akin to water. The Ancients described this realm with the characteristics of water, meaning with waves acting freely. If there is a violation in the waves, ripples are created right?

[3] When God decided to design the material universe, He also created Time. Time has a beginning and a definitive end, or death.

[4] Notice that the heaven is composed of light, all light. Light behaves as a wave and a particle. However, in the beginning, light behaves as a wave. We theorize that the atom that Wisdom drops was sin, formed like matter.

[5] This is according to a new theory by Hawking and Herzog to solve the anomaly presented by String Theory.