Cosmologists currently place the creation of the universe between ten and twenty billion years ago. Supposedly, it occurred in a gigantic explosion called "the Big Bang." Eternism does not support or negate this hypothesis. Eternism merely asserts that the universe we perceive, started with the materialization of "Eternons," basic quanta of Universal Energy.

As Eternons combined their waves and fields in endless ways, extremely small but stable structures emerged: subparticles, like quarks, then particles, like protons. The process is still going on today. Nonetheless, contrary to our earthly experience, materialized Eternons remain scarce in the universe. Wave Eternons, such as photons, are a billion times more numerous than particle Eternons, such as protons and electrons.

The emergence of elementary particles from pure energy was the initial step. The next one was the assemblage of simple structures enabling unlimited combinations. Thus appeared the most remarkable bricks for the great architecture of the universe: atoms.

The world of particles is a mysteriously knit fabric of interlaced energy and matter. Stupendous velocities, frantic agitation, and baffling relationships are typical of this realm foreign to our normal senses.

The world of atoms is a demonstration of incomparable order and organizational genius. Sophisticated simplicity and elegance of construction are revealed to us in the magnificence of the visible universe.