>OUR UNIVERSE BEGAN WITH

A BANG, A BIG BANG.

I SEE A SWIRLING, SEETHING

PLASMA OF UNIMAGINABLY

HOT PARTICLES AND FIERCE

RADIATION.

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE,

ALL APPARENTLY, ALL THE SAME.

I FAST FORWARD ALMOST

14 BILLION YEARS AND -- GASP,

NOW I SEE GALAXIES AND STARS

AND PLANETS AND ON AT LEAST ONE

PLANET, WHICH IT'S INHABITANTS

CALL EARTH, OCEANS AND

MOUNTAINS, PLANTS AND ANIMALS,

BRAINS AND MINDS.

WHAT BEGAN FUNDAMENTALLY

SIMPLE HAS BECOME

ASTONISHINGLY COMPLEX.

HOW DID SUCH STRUCTURE COME

ABOUT?

HOW DOES COMPLEXITY COME FROM

SIMPLICITY?

I'M ROBERT LAWRENCE KUHN

AND CLOSER TO TRUTH IS MY

JOURNEY TO FIND OUT.

A TEEMING WORLD OF

COMPLEXITIES SURROUND ME

AND IT LOOKS ALL SO ORDINARY,

UNTIL I JOLT MYSELF INTO

VISUALIZING HOW UTTERLY SIMPLE

IT ALL ONCE WAS.

HOW COULD SUCH AN

EXTRAORDINARY TRANSFORMATION

HAVE COME ABOUT.

I ACHE TO UNDERSTAND

EXISTENCE.

SO TO BE BEGIN, I PROBE

THE ESSENCE OF COMPLEXITY.