The Origin of Everything
How everything in the Universe — including the Universe itself—came into being!
Let us start by addressing the title itself, “The Origin of Everything”. But what exactly is everything? What is the first thing that comes to our mind when we think of the word ‘everything’? While the notion could differ from person to person, the broadest explanation of the word we can come up with is our Universe.
So, in a way, contemplating the origin of the Universe could lead the way towards discerning the origin of everything.
The Universe is all of space, time, and its contents — planets, stars, galaxies, etc. — in the form of either mass or energy. It consists of billions of galaxies; each galaxy consisting of billions of stars and their solar systems, and each solar system further consisting of many planets and their satellites.
Our planet Earth is one of the eight planets (sorry Pluto, apparently you’re not big enough to be considered a planet anymore) of our solar system, which itself is part of the Milky Way Galaxy, which itself is part of the Universe. So what we call home is a very small entity corroborating to the mammoth of the force the Universe is, the topic we’ll come back to later in further chapters.
The origin of the Universe is a notion that people have wondered about throughout human history…
