Silent Ark

Chapter 1: The Origin of the World

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth is a chaotic void, facing a dark abyss.

God said, "Let there be light."

Therefore, there was light in the sky.

Almost every civilization has its own version of a creation myth.

Chaos was split open, light separated from darkness, earth emerged from water, and life was born from mud and dust.

The stories are different, but the structure is surprisingly consistent: first there is a "state without rules", then rules are "applied", and then the world emerges from the disorder.

Six thousand years later, humanity retells the same story in another language.

It is not oracle bone script, not Hebrew, and not Sanskrit.

It's mathematics.

The Big Bang occurred approximately 10 to the power of negative 43 seconds, which is Planck's time.

At this time, the temperature of the universe is approximately 10 to the power of 32 Kelvin.

The four physical constants—gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force—have not yet separated.

They merge into a single, unified entity.

There are no particles, no fields, and no distinction between space and time.

What exists is merely an infinitely dense, symmetrical "structure" that cannot be called a structure.

Physics calls it the "Planck state".

In ancient theology it was called "chaos".

Perhaps they are describing the same thing.

About 10 minus 36 seconds after the Big Bang, this grand unified state, known as the "Planck state," was broken.

The temperature also dropped to around 10 to the power of 28 Kelvin.

A phenomenon has occurred—what modern physics calls "spontaneous symmetry breaking."

The unified "structure" began to crumble.

The stronger "leader" with strong core power separated from it and began to "establish its own independent entity".

This is not a gradual process, but a phase transition.

Simply put, it's like the process of water freezing under standard atmospheric pressure—at the moment the temperature reaches zero degrees Celsius, the randomness of liquid molecules is "broken".

A perfect, unbiased state suddenly takes a turn.

God said, “Let there be a sky between the waters.”

Therefore, "water" is divided into clear and turbid, and above and below.

After the strong nuclear force separated from "chaos," it found a new "job," binding quarks into protons and neutrons—and thus, matter in its original sense was born.

The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; existence is the mother of all things, and existence is born from nothingness.

This did not happen "naturally".

The essence of symmetry breaking is that a perfectly symmetrical system could have remained symmetrical forever.

It shouldn't have been "broken" in the first place, because that would disrupt the balance.

But physics tells us that this is called random fluctuation.

So what is random fluctuation?

Random fluctuations do not precisely produce the specific coupling constant of the strong nuclear force.

Simply put, it's like throwing a handful of sand into the air; the sand won't turn into a cup of water.

Symmetry breaking is not completely random.

Its fate was sealed at the moment of its birth.

Approximately 10 minus 12 seconds after the Big Bang, the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force also followed in the footsteps of their elder brother and declared "independence".

God said, “Let everything grow on the earth.”

Electromagnetic force was thus given a form by "God".

It was responsible for making electrons orbit the atomic nucleus—and chemistry was born.

If electromagnetic force did not exist, the atomic nucleus would simply be a cluster of naked protons and neutrons, without an electron cloud, without chemical bonds, and without molecules. Without molecules, water, proteins, DNA, and the like would not exist. It can be said that electromagnetic force and its sibling, the strong nuclear force, constitute the "primordial substance" of life.

At this point, the rudimentary form of the material world was born.

Its coupling constant is a fine structure constant α≈1/137—precise to four decimal places.

It's not 1/136.

It's not 1/138.

It's 1/137.

Quantum physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli once said, "When I saw this number, I had a feeling that God was playing a joke on me."

At the time, he had no idea how accurate his prediction was.

About 10 to the power of negative 6 seconds after the Big Bang, the strong nuclear force had completed its "job," solidifying quarks into protons and neutrons, while the electromagnetic force had also put electrons into place.

When the two combine, the first atoms are born, which are truly complete material entities.

Hydrogen: one proton and one electron.

The simplest and most abundant element in the universe was born from nothingness.

God said, “Let there be light.”

Hydrogen atoms, under the influence of the gravitational pull of the fourth star, gather, collapse, and ignite nuclear fusion—the first stars have lit up.

Light surged forth from the depths of matter.

In the vacuum of space, the speed of light is approximately 299792458 meters per second.

Why this speed, and not 3000000000, no one knows; perhaps only God himself knows.

But "nobody knows" does not mean "it is random".

The above is the most common and well-known "genesis" theory in physics—the Big Bang theory.

This explosion is not destruction, but rebirth. It is a separation of four times, a divine pronouncement of four times. These four forces were "spoken" by "God," each carrying a constant that is so precise it is absurd, and each coupling in a way that is so precise it is absurd.

They each have their own functions: the strong nuclear force binds protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus, the electromagnetic force binds electrons, the weak nuclear force controls decay, and gravity controls relatively macroscopic large-scale structures.

Without the operation of these four cosmic constants, the universe cannot function.

It's like a machine that has been designed.

Physicists do not like this conclusion.

It's not because it's unscientific—it's because the word "design" implies a "designer."

The job of physics is to explain the world, not to find reasons for its existence.

So they say, "There's no need for designers. Even if there's a Googol parallel universe in the multiverse, each with different constants, we just happen to live in a universe with the right constants because we wouldn't exist in the unsuitable ones. That's not design; that's survivor bias."

This explanation has a fatal flaw: it cannot be falsified.

An explanation that can never be falsified and a belief that can never be proven are logically equivalent.

Science replaced God, Pangu, Allah, and Brahma with it, and then discovered that this seemingly more advanced substitute had an almost identical face to the "god" it replaced.

The story begins on the silent surface of an abyss, devoid of light and darkness, time and space.

At that time, only the primordial thoughts roamed above the abyss, like the wind across a non-existent sea.

So He said, “Let there be light.”

The light, like a sword, cleaved through the chaos, half burning into stars and the other half settling into the long night.

The stars arrayed themselves, writing undecipherable inscriptions on the dome, and the heavens began to echo with the first rhythm.

As the abyss receded, the earth rose from the undercurrents, its spine rising, with the mountains forming its initial skeleton.

Rivers carve the rings of time into the valleys, and the wind carries seeds and songs across the unnamed wilderness.

At that time, the forest swept across the land like green flames, its roots gripping the soil and its branches reaching out to the sky.

The sea was demarcated, and the back of a giant whale emerged from the water, becoming a floating island.

The first wings of a bird slice through the clouds, scattering fragments of starlight eastward—

And so dawn came.

Then He took the soil of the earth and molded it into a form that could hold light.

Blow a breath deep into its depths.

The body opened its eyes, and the pupils reflected the entire awakened world.

A person stands at the boundary between dawn and dusk, with the newly born earth beneath their feet and the spinning bell of the gods above their head.

Everything was silent, waiting for him to name it all.

And so the epic began to flow, surging from the afterglow of the seventh day of creation toward the unfinished, human chapters.