A rousing song about our ultimate history that started with the Big Bang. Goes through stages of the Big Bang as the key gets lower and lower, signifying the cooling of the universe and therefore the lower average frequency of its light.

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1. Heat was incredibly intense, it was unimaginably dense
Humans can make no sense of it in familiar terms
Phase change caused inflation beyond imagination
Particles' transmutation constantly occurred
No longer quite so hot, collisions then could not
Create gluons on the spot, strong force became distinct
Protons and neutrons were there, electron-positron pairs
Very soon disappeared, antimatter's nearly extinct

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Quarks and gluons, electrons, protons
Neutrons and force fields, perhaps some dark axions
Our ultimate ancestors, that's how we began
In a hot primoridal soup they call the BIG BANG!!

2. Temperature became lower, collisions became slower
Energy fell to where the strong force could now bind
Neutrons stuck to protons, becoming nucleons
The cores of simple atoms had been synthesized
The neutrinos and the photons outnumbered the electrons,
Neutrons and the protons by a billion to one
Expansion continued cooling, gravity's incessant pulling
Caused matter to start pooling into large, massive clumps

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Bridge:

Atoms combined, photons now roam free
Now we find stars and galaxies
Planets and moons, and you and me
This is our spectacular history!

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