Bang! May not be the first sound; but it’s logical that when light began; time began. The original sound may have been more like the sound you could hear when someone strikes a match. Or the sound which water makes when it suddenly goes into its crystalline solid form. It’s always been interesting to me; that there is enough energy in the crystallization of water to rupture and split metal pipes; and explode plastic pipes.

I have seen the pipes; after the explosion. It seems to me that a spark or ignition must have taken place; with such sudden and powerful expressions. In order to bust open a pipe of metal; a quarter of an inch thick; that’s a lot of pressure; a lot of explosive power. I’ve got to wonder if instead of a strictly usual Big Bang answer to universal history; perhaps the story should begin with a big freeze; and then a spark which ignited the hydrogen which permeates space.

After all, hydrogen is a big part of water; which shatters pipes at the temperature change that occurs between 33 degrees; and 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

Also, I have read that when water freezes; it’s two components (hydrogen and oxygen) suddenly move into layers; as frozen ice crystals. It’s their demand; for space that explodes the pipes. My thinking is that there must be a spark created by such a sudden and violent tearing of a metal pipe whose walls are in the range of a quarter of an inch thick.

When anything gets cold; it tends to condense; the question arises; could hydrogen get so cold and dense that it suddenly crystallizes and explodes with a spark?