I'm A Rock I started life as a large boulder on top a high mountain. For centuries a watched and listened as the world around me changed. One day in the distant past the ground beneath me shook violently and, along with several of my rock buddies, rolled down the mountain and came to rest in the valley below. I enjoyed my life in the valley surrounded by many friends and wildlife for a few hundred centuries until one day when several strange animals came by and started beating me with...

  My close personal friend, Mr. Coal, has a great sense of humor. He told me the other day that he overheard a radio program that one of the miners digging him up was listening to. Evidently many humans think the Universe was created by a rapid expansion of a singularity. They call it the "big bang theory". So let me explain it better. Before there was a Universe and everything in it, like matter, mass, energy, and even time, there was absolutely nothing. Then one day, for reaso...

I'm A Rock I started life as a large boulder on top a high mountain. For centuries a watched and listened as the world around me changed. One day in the distant past the ground beneath me shook violently and, along with several of my rock buddies, rolled down the mountain and came to rest in the valley below. I enjoyed my life in the valley surrounded by many friends and wildlife for a few hundred centuries until one day when several strange animals came by and started beating me with...

  My close personal friend, Mr. Coal, has a great sense of humor. He told me the other day that he overheard a radio program that one of the miners digging him up was listening to. Evidently many humans think the Universe was created by a rapid expansion of a singularity. They call it the "big bang theory". So let me explain it better. Before there was a Universe and everything in it, like matter, mass, energy, and even time, there was absolutely nothing. Then one day, for reaso...