Big Bang

This is the time since a remarkable explosive event called the Big Bang. At the beginning of thisuniverse, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform,radiant fireball filling all of space. The passage from the Chaos of the Big Bang to the Cosmos that we are beginning to know is the most awesome transformation of matter and energy that we have been privileged to glimpse. And until we find more intelligent beings elsewhere, we are ourselves the most spectacular of all the transformations - the remote descendants of the Big Bang, dedicated to understanding and further transforming the Cosmos from which we spring.