CHAPTER V
MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS
THE SCRIBE'S NOTE ON CHAPTER FIVE
This great globe upon which we live was once a glowing mass of flaming gas.
It is possible that the whole solar system was once one great mass.
In any case, we have no doubt that the moon is simply the result of a part of our glowing mass having become detached.
In the hottest stars we find only the lightest atoms of matter, such as hydrogen gas, the atoms of heavier substances being found in stars which have begun to cool down.
The electrons have been present from the very beginning, and it is they who go to make up the atoms of matter.