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This is the "Eighteenth Voyage" from the "Star Diaries" by Stanislaw Lem (which funny enough, is not included in every publication):

Ijon Tichy meets an astrophysicist named Solon, who spent his whole life studying the origin of the universe, coming to the conclusion that the universe indeed HAD an origin in form of some primeval particle, but the tests also show that such particle couldn't exist. This leads him to believe, that one day universe would simply stop existing, because it shouldn't in the first place.

Ijon comes with solution: someone should shoot a single electron back in time to the moment before universe existed, thus giving it enough energy to create the Big Bang.

Project went well under way and the new Universe was well designed, until Ijon got into argue with lab assistant named "Bunch" (Polish "Kupa"), who also wanted to be mentioned in the list of the "Creators of the Universe". Bunch and his mates (German Ast A. Roth and half Dutch, half British Boels E. Bubb) used brief period when Ijon was away on holidays (and another lab assistant Serpentine had date with certain Eve) and put their own changes to the project, among them the fact that stars are now in "bunches", better known as galaxies.

This is the "Eighteenth Voyage" from the "Star Diaries" by Stanislaw Lem (which funny enough, is not included in every publication):

Ijon Tichy meets an astrophysicist named Solon, who spent his whole life studying the origin of the universe, coming to the conclusion that the universe indeed had an origin in form of some primeval particle, but the tests also show that such particle couldn't exist. This leads him to believe that one day universe would simply stop existing, because it shouldn't exist in the first place.

Ijon comes up with a solution: someone should shoot a single electron back in time to the moment before universe existed, thus giving it enough energy to create the Big Bang.

The project was well under way and the new Universe was well designed, when Ijon got into an argument with the lab assistant named "Bunch" (Polish "Kupa"), who also wanted to be mentioned in the list of the "Creators of the Universe". Bunch and his mates (German Ast A. Roth and half Dutch, half British Boels E. Bubb) used a brief period when Ijon was away on holidays (and another lab assistant Serpentine had a date with a certain Eve) and made their own changes to the project, among them the fact that stars are now in "bunches", better known as galaxies.

This is the "Eighteenth Voyage" from the "Star Diaries" (which funny enough, is not included in every publication):

Ijon Tichy meets an astrophysicist named Solon, who spent his whole life studying the origin of the universe, coming to the conclusion that the universe indeed HAD an origin in form of some primeval particle, but the tests also show that such particle couldn't exist. This leads him to believe, that one day universe would simply stop existing, because it shouldn't in the first place.

Ijon comes with solution: someone should shoot a single electron back in time to the moment before universe existed, thus giving it enough energy to create the Big Bang.

Project went well under way and the new Universe was well designed, until Ijon got into argue with lab assistant named "Bunch" (Polish "Kupa"), who also wanted to be mentioned in the list of the "Creators of the Universe". Bunch and his mates (German Ast A. Roth and half Dutch, half British Boels E. Bubb) used brief period when Ijon was away on holidays (and another lab assistant Serpentine had date with certain Eve) and put their own changes to the project, among them the fact that stars are now in "bunches", better known as galaxies.

This is the "Eighteenth Voyage" from the "Star Diaries" by Stanislaw Lem (which funny enough, is not included in every publication):

Ijon Tichy meets an astrophysicist named Solon, who spent his whole life studying the origin of the universe, coming to the conclusion that the universe indeed HAD an origin in form of some primeval particle, but the tests also show that such particle couldn't exist. This leads him to believe, that one day universe would simply stop existing, because it shouldn't in the first place.

Ijon comes with solution: someone should shoot a single electron back in time to the moment before universe existed, thus giving it enough energy to create the Big Bang.

Project went well under way and the new Universe was well designed, until Ijon got into argue with lab assistant named "Bunch" (Polish "Kupa"), who also wanted to be mentioned in the list of the "Creators of the Universe". Bunch and his mates (German Ast A. Roth and half Dutch, half British Boels E. Bubb) used brief period when Ijon was away on holidays (and another lab assistant Serpentine had date with certain Eve) and put their own changes to the project, among them the fact that stars are now in "bunches", better known as galaxies.

This is the "Eighteenth Voyage" from the "Star Diaries" (which funny enough, is not included in every publication):

Ijon Tichy meets an astrophysicist named Solon, who spent his whole life studying the origin of the universe, coming to the conclusion that the universe indeed HAD an origin in form of some primeval particle, but the tests also show that such particle couldn't exist. This leads him to believe, that one day universe would simply stop existing, because it shouldn't in the first place.

Ijon comes with solution: someone should shoot a single electron back in time to the moment before universe existed, thus giving it enough energy to create the Big Bang.

Project went well under way and the new Universe was well designed, until Ijon got into argue with lab assistant named "Bunch" (Polish "Kupa"), who also wanted to be mentioned in the list of the "Creators of the Universe". Bunch and his mates used brief period when Ijon was away on holidays and put their own changes to the project, among them the fact that stars are now in "bunches", better known as galaxies.

This is the "Eighteenth Voyage" from the "Star Diaries" (which funny enough, is not included in every publication):

Ijon Tichy meets an astrophysicist named Solon, who spent his whole life studying the origin of the universe, coming to the conclusion that the universe indeed HAD an origin in form of some primeval particle, but the tests also show that such particle couldn't exist. This leads him to believe, that one day universe would simply stop existing, because it shouldn't in the first place.

Ijon comes with solution: someone should shoot a single electron back in time to the moment before universe existed, thus giving it enough energy to create the Big Bang.

Project went well under way and the new Universe was well designed, until Ijon got into argue with lab assistant named "Bunch" (Polish "Kupa"), who also wanted to be mentioned in the list of the "Creators of the Universe". Bunch and his mates (German Ast A. Roth and half Dutch, half British Boels E. Bubb) used brief period when Ijon was away on holidays (and another lab assistant Serpentine had date with certain Eve) and put their own changes to the project, among them the fact that stars are now in "bunches", better known as galaxies.