When born free in the very early universe, the neutron revealed the blueprint for all creation to follow.

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Neutral (as its name suggests) and freewheeling, but born with a little more mass than it could carry on its own, the neutron, after about fifteen minutes of throwing its weight around, found itself "decaying" into a proton and an electron; gone... but not really. For when two protons collided hard enough and just so, which in the very excitable young universe they were bound to do, one got its positivity kicked out of it and became a neutron anew. Then stuck to its new, still positive proton partner by strong force glue, the neutron remained stable. The pair similarly collided with and stuck to other pairs to create the atomic nuclei of every element ever to appear in our universe. Ever. That's meant to be provocative but not really the last word in that every element we know in this universe can be explained by some variation on this theme, but ours is the only universe we know.

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​For an enlightened reason (as yet still eluding me) I chose it to be blue.