Atoms

An atom wanders through a dark void of silence.


Alone, it searches. Until finally it crashes into another, and another, and another. A gas plumes from the nothingness. Building and building.


Two atoms meet in the middle of the newly formed cloud. A spark ignites. Heat and light begin to expand into the void at an incredible speed. All at once, galaxies of stars and worlds spread among the vast emptiness like stones skipping on a still pond.


Again there is silence. Millions of years of empty time and space.


Until once again there is a lone atom. Not in a dark void but in an empty ocean. It wanders the changing tides continuously searching until finally it collides with another and another. Over and over until there is being, until there is life. That life creates another and then more and more. The ocean fills with creatures. Creatures that swim and hunt and evolve. They crawl from the oceans onto land. Feeling the warmth and light of the sun, echoing the first spark.


Their fins become legs and arms, they begin to move across the land, adapting and exploring.


They learn to stand upright, they learn to ignite fire, they learn to communicate. They create art and music. They fall in love. They become human.


All this from a lonely atom experiencing chaos.

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