The Beginning of Everything (Story by R.C. Peris)

I am dead. Trapped in another dimension. The eleventh to be exact. Here is my story.

Something can come from nothing. Chaos theory perfectly proves that. There is no need for a God or super being to spin the universe into unstoppable motion.

I am Doctor Janice Winthrop. I was born in the year 3501 CE. During the Faded Age, Earth was hot and melting. In 3300 CE the Earth became cold and shivering. This is known as the Crystal Age. During these environmental upheavals, we began interstellar space missions and, in the past decade, I and other scientists discovered time travel. Each person on the team selected a time period. Doctor Simmons chose the Jurassic period. Doctor Cho chose to visit China during the Ming Dynasty. Doctor Holcomb chose World War II. We were under strict instructions not to interfere with history. I chose the beginning of the universe. I wanted to definitively determine the Big Bang.

To time travel you rip space with tidal forces and then tunnel. You are safely tucked in a pod as the nuclear energy matter (TOP SECRET) begins shredding the fabric of the universe.

I left Earth for the Mars base, Sibelian, in October. I slept for two months and then awoke at the landing bay. I chatted with some scientists, had a decent meal, and then headed to the deployment center. I boarded the pod, got myself comfortable, and then braced for launch. When I reached Phobos, a moon of Mars, I told the onboard system to begin. In less than three seconds, the pod heated and then it was rocked. I closed my eyes. I was being shaken like a baby’s rattle. And then there was stillness. I opened my eyes. Nothingness. Vast, empty space. No light from any star. The temperature was absolute zero. No atomic activity. As I stared with growing fear at nothingness the energy source began to malfunction. It was superheating. I tried to direct the pod back to the future but the onboard system wasn’t working. As the pod expanded, I thought something crazy. I am the Big Bang. My pod and I triggered the blossoming of the universe. Right before the pod exploded, my mind was tangled with causal effects and paradoxes. My body crumpled and folded into another dimension. I can see everything. I am alone. Am I God? Am I the something from nothing? I find it strange I don’t have answers. Precise answers to my confusion. I laugh in my trapped dimension. I can’t be God if I don’t have answers. Or can I?

My name is Doctor Janice Winthrop. I am the Big Bang. I am the beginning of everything.

THE END

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