Fundamental Questions

This website is aimed at answering fundamental questions we all ask at some point in our lives:

"Why am I here?"

"Where did I come from?"

"Where am I going?"

In this website I try to answer some of these age-old questions by telling the story which science has discovered about the origin and development of the Universe, Earth, life, humanity, and technology to the present day with a glimpse into the future.

This story is a modern myth of creation. It is rightly called a myth because it is not the complete truth. Science does not claim to tell us the truth, merely to provide plausible explanations for the observed facts. But a new observation can (and often does) cause a revolution in science.

I call it a myth also because, clearly, the Universe has a very long history (there is nothing longer!) so I have had to simplify many things to keep the story both reasonably short and understandable to the non-scientist.