In the beginning the heavens were void.

Matter did not exist, and without matter neither time nor space. Nothing stirred in the entirety of non-Creation and minus time.

Questions too, like the heavens, were void. There was no one to ask them and no one to answer, so the questions remained unasked and unanswered.

Then into this cosmic enigma a question did appear: a question-mark composed of a single point of light: the Primeval Atom. With light came energy, and with energy matter, and with matter space, and with space time.

The Holy Trinity:

Time.

Matter.

Space.

The universe had been born.

Soon after its birth – one one hundred thousand billion billionth of a second – the point of light was at a temperature of one thousand billion billion degrees. The point of light began to cool.

At one ten thousandth of a second after Creation, at a temperature of one thousand billion degrees, the first species of particle came into existence:

The Hadron.

Still later in the evolutionary process – a full one second after Creation at a temperature of ten billion degrees – the Hadron gave birth to the electron (matter) and the positron (anti-matter).

Still later at a temperature of one billion degrees, protons and neutrons were created. Growing in abundance as the Primeval Atom expanded they formed a plasma of charged particles which, one hundred seconds after birth at a temperature of one thousand million degrees, fused together to produce one-tenth helium out of all the matter in the universe.

The helium was trapped in the primordial expanding gas, awaiting the moment when it would condense to form nebulae, galaxies, stars.

This was the Hadron Era, and with its family of psi particles determined the size and distribution of all the galaxies in the universe. Hadrons were the master templates for the ordering of matter, the DNA of Creation.

The Hadrons were something more: the first particles to possess cosmic intelligence. The universe was their creation: matter and anti-matter, time and minus time, quarks and anti-quarks. The Beginning and the End of all Creation.

Everything came from the Hadron.