A Question of Origins

in the beginning there was nothing a vacuum void empty space and in this empty space there emerged a primordial fireball billions of years ago this fireball exploded this explosion generated all space energy matter the universe expanded rapidly producing electrons neutrinos photons and quarks soon this energy began interacting forming protons and neutrons matter continued colliding and interacting over time the first simple elements for these elements also collided as the primordial soup continued to expand Kosmic and particulate evolution continued and stars began to group forming into the earliest galaxies and then just 5 billion years ago something wondrous occurred within a cloud of gas in a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy our Sun formed this new star gave birth to planets moons and asteroids one of these planets known as Earth developed an atmosphere Earth's environment believed