My Story of the Universe       By Rick Allen Harrington This is a glimpse into my imagination. A glimpse into some of my thoughts. And for this story, lets say that it is not claimed to be True nor False. Once upon a time there was a place that we now call The Universe. But at this time,,.. there was nothing more out there than the Universe itself. You can imagine it now,.. it was just black and it went on forever. There was no end to it... Nothing but the Universe itself out there in the blackness of itself. But this Universe was more than just an empty place. It could move. It was a substance similar to the Oxygen that we breath here on Earth. So, it was actually a clear substance made up of lots of tiny clear pieces. If it wasn't made up of lots of tiny small pieces it would be one solid clear thing that wasn't moveable at all. Therefore it had to be made up of lots of little pieces because it could move. But with being the only thing out there,... there was no reason for this place to move at all unless something caused it to move. Which is why this Universe realized that it was Alive. But at this time it didn't know anything other than how to move within itself. You can imagine,... it's kind of like a blind new born baby. It learned how to move all kinds of different ways within itself, and how to move fast and slow and precise,... then how to stop,... and move again. One day the Universe through concentrating on the areas that it was moving in thought it saw something... And in fact it did. It saw that it was moving. And it realized that there was something else about life besides just moving. And the same thing happened with sound. It's movements were creating sound,.. and because the sound could be different depending on how it moved,... it realized that it could make sounds with the way that it moved. The Universe found that it could move itself into all kinds of different shapes,.. it was getting mental pictures of these shapes. . . It was seeing circular shapes, squares & rectangles, triangles, cube shapes and odd shapes. One day the Universe had the thought to try to make one of these shapes that he was seeing,... but to make it where it was easier to see... That day The Universe made it's very first creation. It made a round, clear object like what it was picturing in it's mind. . . But this object was obviously something new because it was a solid round object. And it was obvious that The Universe just created something. Therefore it learned that it could create things. Anything that it could think of,... it could create. It created little circles, big circles, squares, odd shapes. Everything that it pictured through it's movements it created. So now the Universe had all kinds of different solid objects out there that it was able to move and throw and make new sounds with. The objects were a transparent grayish like color sitting in the blackness of the Universe. So it had 2 colors out there. Eventually it decided that since it was possible to make these objects easier to see that it may be possible to make one even more easy to see. And it created a solid circle (like a ball) that was a little lighter gray in color. Then it created another one that was even more lighter gray colored,.. and it created lighter colored shapes that day until it had the brightest white object that it could possible make. And it also created black solid objects like the color it could see in the background of all it's new creations. Other colors like red, blue & yellow came around through creating different kinds of objects and smashing them into each other. Some objects were breakable, which caused things to happen when they broke. Like little explosions that created new colors. In time The Universe learned all about colors through making things lighter in color, putting transparent colored objects near it's white object and mixing the colors together and so on. And also over time it learned how to create all kinds of different things, because each new thing it created would lead to a new idea. Until one day when The Universe decided to see if it could create another lifeform. Something that is alive like it is. The Universe thought about what something that is alive should look like,... and about what type of object the lifeform should be. It thought that the new lifeform should be able to move and see and hear and create just like it can. So the Universe decided to create a new lifeform that looks exactly like it does,... only smaller. And on that day the Universe created somebody new. Someone alive other than itself... Like a baby though... A new lifeform, and the only thing it knows is what it can see and hear. They have no language at this time. The Universe is experienced with creating things, shapes, colors, sounds, movements, and the touch and feel of things. And knows about hot and cold, and Likes & dislikes also. The Universe touched the Baby lifeform and it moved away from it's touch making the Universe think that the Baby didn't like being touched... So the Universe moved objects around and watched the baby to see it's reaction. The Baby didn't do much at all at first. But eventually the Universe watched the Baby as it learned all the things that the Universe learned. And the Universe remembered how it went through a similar process. Only this time there was someone out there to learn from. But not only did the Baby learn from the Universe,... the Universe also learned from the Baby as they kind of grew up together. A new mind with the ability to create things too thinks of it's own things to create. Over time they both realized that it would be nice to be able to communicate with each other and they learned how to make names for things which eventually led to them having a language and being able to communicate with each other. The language was made up of sounds. . . Any sound that they've ever heard and know of. They would takes parts of a sound then add another part of another sound to it and use that sound to name an object,.. and so on. Some of their language sounds kind of like this,... Popshhhhhhhzzzzinck,... and Bankstttttshweeeeeeeeee. Just any sound that they knew of they would use. Because until they learned of a new sound,... they didn't know of any others. Learning to communicate with each other led the Universe and the Baby to getting smarter. Just like it happens here with people on Earth. Eventually The Universe created another lifeform so that they had another new friend to share life with. And the Universe and the Baby watched as the newest baby did a lot of the same things that the first baby did. And that led to the first Baby deciding to create a friend as well. And they learned that "Yes" they do have all of the same abilities. Now,... the Universe goes on forever. If it didn't,... there would be something else out there. The Universe would be able to feel its end along with that something else. But there is nothing else,... so running out of room when creating things is not a problem what so ever. There was one thing the lifeforms all had in common though. They all looked exactly alike. Except for the differences in their sizes. See,... when creating new lifeforms that are clear and look like a blob of oxygen, the only way to make one look different was to make it larger or smaller than any of the others. And that eventually led to them using a creation as their looks. . . We see them now as Planets & Stars. But to them it's a way to tell each other apart by looking at them. Their creation is how you know who that is,... and usually where they are too. Being clear colored just like the Universe can make them very hard to see unless their moving. You can imagine how they could of played Hide & Seek very well,... but The Universe wouldn't of been able to play because it can feel where everybody is. It was over a long period of time,... and lots of lifeforms of the same type that were created where eventually Families started forming. 2 lifeforms,... sometimes just 1,... and sometimes groups of lifeforms would move away from the original Universes group and form like a family of their own. We call them Galaxies now days. Which brings this story to a time close to when our Earth began. And for this story I'm going to say that Saturn was the one that started this family. PAGE 1 of 9 PAGE 1 of 9