Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

by David Christian

As we talk about the remote future of the universe, we begin to realize that the story we’ve told so far was just the preface. The cavalcade of all things has a long and sometimes difficult journey ahead. We humans live right at the beginning of the universe’s history, and its story is just getting going. Our universe is still young and energetic; it has plenty of living to do and plenty of complex new structures to build.