For a long time, the universe had been nothing. It was emptiness, like your room in the house you've just moved out of. Well...it only seemed empty: bits of atoms, like forgotten dust, echoed around the vast blank.

Somewhere, in a far corner of the void, something began to think. An ordinary atom, nothing more than a few electrons and protons, realized it was lonely, and useless too. I need some sort of purpose...if I joined a few other atoms, we could figure something out. I'm not sure what, but we'll fix that too. It bonded with an unsuspecting nearby atom, and then a few more atoms, until some other atoms saw what was going on and got rather excited (nothing much else happened around there). A mad frenzy ensued, with everybody scrambling to "get connected."

The latent energy summoned by this combinative fad grew until it burst, and two shining people appeared out of the expanding mist of atom debris. Somewhere in this chaotic explosion, The Original Atom fortuitously splitand decided to land inside each of these new people's minds.

We must create some sort of order out of all this mess. It simply won't get us anywhere, and we'll go back to being nothing again. The other atom-person thought: no, things will never be the same again...at least for a long while. See, some of the atoms are bonding together again. She took control of the atoms around her and constructed the Elements. At the same time, the other person drew some of the shining light out of their bodies and formed little pellets with it, flinging boxfuls into the dark universe.

Now what?, spoke the Atom inside of their minds. We have matter and light, and they both look pretty good. But...what else do we need? If we had more people, they could think about it. Then, I could sit back and watch them do my thinking for me! The two people selected a newly formed grain of matter and set it near a suitable light-pellet, but suddenly, the Man sneezed and they forgot about making life in the process of attempting to create kleenexes.

After the kleenex-making mysteriously failed, the two People went about the universe, painting things with bright colors and making up a bunch of laws to rule everything. The woman half of the atom thought, this is great fun! I love being omnipotent and doing nothing with it but making art and superfluous rules! And so the two people ran around the edges of the universe, creating new and wonderful things, while the forgotten Grain of Matter flourished with bacteria from the Man's sneeze.