The universe began as a void, a vacuum. Perfect nothingness.An infinitive expanse of inexhaustible blindingly white light, a tangible yet arbitrary wonderland, a horizontal abyss of absolutely blissful oblivion.The universe gradually fed its indefinite cognizance to this abyss, feeding life to its own insentient incandescence, allowing consciousness to trickle into its vast expanse, drop-by-drop, sentient being by sentient being, one insensate object after another. The universe gave itself consc...