If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ll know that there has been a great deal of hooplah over the Big Bang, and certain proofs found in ancient starlight that the event actually did occur a million billion years ago and it has to do with gravity, and space, and time, and they’re all linked, and I don’t get it either.

However New Scientist will make it clear with just an apple, a towel, a ping pong ball, and a Scottish Accent.

I mean, it’s still confusing, but it helps the un-science-y among us to visualize massively complicated physics theories in ways that make sense to our right-brain focused heads.

What Sparks Our Fire: Indirectly, the beginning of the universe sparked our fire. So, yeah.

Do you understand this yet? Want to help us out with it?