In the endless darkness, an infinitely small point gave off a faint light.
Then that light gradually expanded, forming a hazy silhouette.
It seemed to be a stretch of land enclosed within an ellipsoid.
Rather than land, it was more like a single slab of solid rock.
Crack...
A force from some unknown source arrived, and the rocky land began to tremble. Under internal compression, cracks soon appeared.
The cracks grew wider and wider, dividing the enormous rock into smaller pieces.
Different plates pressed against one another, producing rocks that were tiny compared with the plates.
The smallest rocks drifted away like dust.
The inexplicable force continued to operate, and the plates of condensed matter kept moving.
As energy accumulated, the temperature rose, and some solids melted into liquids.
Some liquids then evaporated into gases.
Unlike solids, liquids could flow, and most gradually seeped out onto the surfaces of the plates, enveloping their outer layers.
The gases spread in every direction, soon filling all the space within that membrane and touching it.
At that moment, the membrane seemed to disappear, and the gases continued to spread.
However, a force of attraction within still confined the vast majority of the gases close to the center.
Some gas particles also vanished into the void, their destination unknown.
Energy circulated and flowed, and soon that material "world" continued to evolve.
Solids, liquids, and gases separated into categories yet also gathered together, while the influence of matter made the distribution of energy uneven.
The entire "world" grew increasingly complex.
Finally, in some unremarkable corner, a collection of solids, liquids, and gases happened to gather into a certain shape.
The first spark of life was born in this "world."
Then the world seemed to begin evolving at an accelerated pace.
Life spread and evolved, taking