Big Bang poem | “There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side”

A stitch with Hank Green (@hankschannel), turned into a nursery rhyme like poem about the Big Bang, the origins of the universe, and other cosmic questions. Before the Big Bang There was no up There was no down There was no side to side There was no light There was no dark Nor shape of any kind There were no stars Or planet Mars Or protons to collide There was no up There was no down There was no side to side And furthermore, to underscore This total lacking state There was no here There was no there Because there was no space And in this endless void Which can’t be thought of as a place There was no time And so no passing minutes, hours, days Of all the paradoxes That belabor common sense I think this one’s the greatest This time before events Because how did we get from nothing To infinitely dense From immeasurably small To inconceivably immense But before we get unmoored From the q