Part 1 - The Beginning

What and where is the beginning?

Existence itself has no beginning. It has always been. So lets start at the beginning of the material universe.

The more you know of something, the more you know of everything. This is because there is nothing in the physical existence, no material thing, no thought or idea which did not originate from the beginning of the universe.

Big Bang - the theory that at its beginning, all the matter of the universe was together in one place. The temperature and pressure were so great that a tremendous explosion occurred and threw all that matter outwards to form the physical universe. But how did the matter get there in the first place? As stated, Big Bang refers to a time when all that matter was in one place. The further you go back in time, the smaller the universe. And if you go all the way back to the beginning of time, the universe had no size at all. So what was there before the physical universe came into existence? There was nothing. By this I mean no time, no space, no matter. Space, time and matter are related in such a way that one cannot exist without the other two.

The only existence then was Existence itself. A dimensionless singularity or point of existence was then created. Light was manifested - intense electromagnetic radiation of all frequencies confined to a tiny area. These little packages of energy are known as photons. Because the universe then was 'small' these photons would bump into one another and upon collision form sub atomic particles, the most common being protons, electrons and neutrons. But at this time, the universe was still too hot and small that these sub atomic particles would be immediately destroyed, upon forming, Physicists call it annihilated, ie changing back into energy or photons. The universe in the meantime, was expanding and cooling and at some point became big and cool enough for the photons to stop colliding. The sub atomic particles that had not been annihilated remained in existence. The universe kept on expanding and cooling but now consisted of stable electrons, protons, neutrons and other sub atomic particles.

To be continued...