Big Bang Theory

On our ride home tonight Jack explained a game he's been playing with his friend William at recess. Apparently it's sort of an Indiana Jones meets The Magic Tree-house/Dr. Who. Jack gets to be Indy and William is Shorty. There is a tree in the playground they call the "Time Travel Tree."

If I understood him correctly, they went to the Time Travel Tree and it took them all the way back to before the Big Bang. "Where were you?" I asked. "Before the Big Bang Mama - before the cave men and the dinosaurs - before the earth!"

"Okay, but if there was no earth, then where were you?"

"In space. We are floating in space."

"Gotcha - well how do you get back to earth?"

"That's the problem, there is no Time Travel Tree because there is no earth, so we are stuck in outer space. It's really not fair because I don't have my whip either!"

"What happened to your whip? Doesn't Indy always have his whip?"

"Well, the first time we used the Time Travel Tree we went to the future and it got lost, so now I don't have it when we are in space."

Alex chimed in with this question "Why can't you get a new whip?"

"ALEX" Jack said, "you can't just find a whip in outer space!"

Trying to avoid an argument about whips in space, I jumped back in to ask for more details on the whole floating around in space thing. Jack clarified by saying they have to stay in space until the Big Bang, at which point they can get back to earth because, as Jack said "that's when God created it - he made the bang."

"Oh No" Jack says "there is something important I forgot to tell William."

"What's that?" I ask.

"I forgot to tell him that after the Big Bang and the earth gets made, it starts out all water. So it's going to take a long time to get to the Time Travel Tree. First the land has to come, then the tree. It starts out as just a twig you know."

"Really?" I say. "I had no idea . . ."

I have to say, I like the idea of Indy and his buddy floating through space looking for Indy's whip.