Big Bang Go Boom

I have it under pretty good authority that this cartoon is scientifically accurate.

So I was reading this cool article about CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (which, as you know, could destroy us all). They're hoping to discover, among other things, why we gots mass. One theory, put forth by physicist and man-about-town, Peter Higgs, is that within moments after the Big Bang everything went through this field that then gave everything mass. And that's about the time when I scratch my head (we'll say it's my head) and I say, "I'll take your word for it, Pete."

So I was reading about the Big Bang this morning and the idea for this cartoon popped into my head. I drew it twice. The first one really sucked and this one only kinda sucks. Of course, the cartoon begs the question, "Which came first, the primeval atom or John Cleese."