Who created the first universe? This is a question that all creator-level beings ponder. Some answer that it was brought into being by a higher-level entity. Others believe that their own universe was the first, created by their god or an equivalent force. Still others propose that we are all the dreams of a being so great that we cannot even fathom it.

  However, the answer to the question is exceedingly mundane. It was a roll of the dice—a one-in-almost-infinite chance. The first universe came into being spontaneously. The first light, the first sound, the very emergence of everything occurred by chance. There was no creator, no god, nothing at all. You might ask, “Who am I to claim such absurdities?” Yet I can assert them as truth, for I was there to witness the birth of the first universe.

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  I did not know at the time that it was the first universe. Sentience and sapience—the very concepts of consciousness—had not yet been conceived. As the first being in the endless void, I had no sense of self. I was like a stone lying by the side of the road: present, yet oblivious to the grandeur of what had occurred.