Ahem, yes. So the professor had noticed Mo's trouble getting up and it earned a comment, which was pretty embarassing. Maybe he WAS working too hard, but at least his players weren't... oh, nope. Benjy was looking pretty rough too. Nigel, at least, had that same cool approach to the world as usual. Maybe they all could just take a page out of Ni's book.

As the egg spread across the floor, Mo wrinkled his nose and offered, "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Look, Professor. Mo Branxton has been doing reading about SPACE TRAVEL. Of sorts.

Caleb had been sitting quietly in the corner and wrinkled his eyebrows as Flamsteed dropped...an egg. What? This was not nearly as cool as the flying thing from last term.

BUT it dawned on him what that egg was supposed to represent. He raised his hand quickly. "That's meant to represent the Big Bang. There was one atom, or something, and it exploded and the whole universe came out of it," he explained.

And that concluded Caleb's knowledge on the Big Bang. But he had always wondered - where did the first molecules come from? WHO PUT THEM THERE?

Class began and the professor revealed what he had been hiding in the box. An egg? What was that about in relation to astronomy? Was there an egg constellation? Listening to the man speak of the phoenix and the flame or the chicken and egg (was that the reason for the egg?) Ben was doing his best to try and follow. He himself had no clue as to what came first, nor why the hair that kept falling in front of his face seemed off to him for that matter. Some of the strands didn't look normal...were they dirty...were they grey?

Ben absently shook his head to clear his mind and focus better on what was being said. Oh...okay...so the egg was meerly a tool to demonstrate. And the creation of the universe made sense in context, his classmates seemingly pretty certain of their answer so he simply remained quiet and listened.

Lux was still feeling rather awkward seeing this Professor after the whole bathroom incident, but the starting of the class was enough to get her to forget about it and be very eager to learn. Listening to him teach while tossing the egg, she looked to the floor as it splattered and made a big mess. Not really knowing much about space, she still knew the answer to this one as it was what started the whole universe and she would be silly to not know where the universe came from. Raising her hand, she gave her answer. "That would be the Big Bang. It is said that something small exploded in space and that is where the universe came from."

Brynn spent much of the beginning of the class with her eyes on the fish in the tank, though she periodically tried to focus at least some of her attention on the Astrolo- ..er, Astronomy professor while he spoke. But she was so curious about if that fish really was a person trapped inside. Sure, she knew a little bit about animagi, but she had never seen one in person.. or in fish.

She was suddenly startled out of her reverie however when she heard a loud SPLAT and her eyes snapped to first the professor and then to the egg on the floor. Uh.. what? What did it represent.. Brynn thought that question over carefully as she thoughtfully tapped the top of her quill against her chin. She didn't really have time to give it much thought though as many other students offered their own ideas. Most of them said Big Bang and she remembered hearing that term in her homeschooling studies, though she wasn't all that familiar with it other than what some of her classmates said. That was probably it then.

Maybe she should take some notes if she couldn't add anything else. Brynn opened her parchment journal to the first blank page and wrote:
B i g B a n g T h e o r y.. but she waited till the professor explained to add any more in her notes. Some of them used such scientific words that she didn't quite grasp so maybe he would make it slightly more elementary.

Professor Dursley? Was a... fish? Had Adrienne missed something? Because as far as she could remember, he was a person, not a fish. The fact that Flamsteed was calling his fish Professor Dursley was really........ fishy. She couldn't help but crack a smile at the pun, though it didn't make things any less weird.

Yeah, okay, it was official, Adrienne was currently in the classroom of someone who was completely bonkers. Egg-tossing, fish-speaking-to, one hundred percent crazy. What could a broken egg have to do with, well, anything, let alone Astronomy? She could tell she wasn't going to be learning much of anything during this lesson, at least, which was disappointing, though it lined up pretty accurately with her previous Astronomy experiences. Silly, not very practical, and not actually learning much of anything interesting.

"A failed attempt to make an omelette?" she volunteered dryly, not even bothering to deign the question with a proper answer. If he wanted to explain something to them, he could easily do so without messy, slimy metaphors.

Kace was excited for this class. Huh? Only one fish? Kace thought there was more. He smiled and nodded and went back to his seat. He heard the professor making his speech to the class. He saw an egg and gave it a quizzical look. What does an egg have to do with Astronomy? He waited a few more minutes before asking a question and then he saw it splat.

Uh...now the professor was asking what the egg splatting was an illusion of? Kace had NO idea. But he raised his hand and said, "Uhh...the illusion of being clumsy?" That is what he thought.

Sophie leeeeeeeaned over and watched the egg as if it was a part of the best demonstration there ever was. She eyed it until SPLAT...it was no more. Oh, well. She sat up straight again and raised her hand. "I think the phoenix came first," she said. "I think it just went POOF and appeared after that egg dropped." Err... "I mean, the big bang theory, which is why I think you dropped that egg."

"No." Her damn knee HURT.

And he was starting class already? The fact that her face was still contorted in pain paired with the continued throbbing of her knee meant Alice was far less interested in the crude demonstration as she would have normally been. It was obvious what the egg was meant to represent and all, but she didn't have the heart to add to her classmates' answers right now.

Stupid knee.

"You just wasted an egg, sir." Shame on him.

Robin was startled when the egg made a giant SPLAT on the floor. She sat stunned for a moment and the only thought that came to her mind was
who's going to clean that up?
She would if he needed help cleaning up but she forced herself to think of the question.
The chicken or the egg huh? Well she could look at it from so many views she didn't know where to begin.
"Well um, I think the chicken did sir, or a version of it, through evolution and stuff until it stopped evolving and became a chicken it must have started out as something that wasn't an egg, I think you just showed us was the creation of the flame? like the flame of a phoenix formed suddenly, like how the egg was dropped?" She slunk down in her seat, face flushing from embarrassment.
"Oh and do you want me to help, um, clean that up?"

Bart found his seat and took out a parchment even though he probably wouldn't be using it he hadn't used it yet in any class. First time for everything though, right? Like that fish did he say it was someone like a person? That confused the second year so he didn't ask anymore questions.

Then Flamedude started the lesson did the flame come before the phoenix what type of question was that. It was odd what did it really matter. Then he had an egg and he splattered it all over his floor. THAT WAS AWESOME! Did he have more could they do that?

His hand went up, "Professor clearly the flame came first without the flame there would be no Phoenix. That was soo cool do we get to splatter eggs too?" What was it an illustration of who knows. "Are you demonstrating how quickly the groundskeeper is going to come fry an egg on your head when he finds out you are wasting his three breakfast meals?" Did he get it? Did he? Frying an egg on your head since he was using eggs... Bazinga!

Chicken and the egg joke? Big Bang Theory? Where were these people coming up with some of these ideas. Lily was thinking a lot more about the fact that the professor had said to think of the egg as something smaller... much smaller. A star perhaps?

"Does it possibly signify the death of a star, far out in a galaxy?" The seventh year asked having put her hand up to answer the question. It made sense, seeing as the egg had exploded on impact basically. Stars did that, right?? When they died?

Asher listened to all the others responses. He liked some of them and agreed with the Big bang theory one, the most. Anyway he though about the phoenix or the flame, chicken or the egg. And the Airey dropping the egg.

He raised his hand "Professor Airey, did you want your egg sunnyside up or scrambled?" Haha get it Sunnyside. Sun Astronomy. Yeah. Seriously, though what he wanted to say had already been said.

No sense in repeating it. Right? Right.

Blush. Blush.

He DID remember her. The third year was a little relieved he hadn't forgotten her. Her grandmother had once mentioned that quiet people are forgotten quite easily, and even if she told herself not to let it bother her, it did. BUT. Professor Flamsteed-Airey- hadn't forgotten. INNER BEAM.

Caught off guard, she jumped in her seat at the SPLAT.

Geez. Did someone not appreciate their protein?

Beverly blinked at the professor with big eyes. Could he do it again? Oh. Wait. It was related to the lesson. Okay. She thought about the phoenix and flame bit first. There'd be no flame without a phoenix, but then there'd be no phoenix without the flame. Ugh. Mutation? She decided to focus on the dead egg instead.

Obvious much? She raised her hand up shyly. "An explosion."

.............

Well, that was unexpected. Totally and completely unexpected. And, as some mentioned, a waste of a perfectly good egg. But it was obvious what the egg dropping was supposed to represent. She had been beaten to the punch, however, so instead of repeating what had already been said, Layla prepared for note taking.

There was something bothering her though. "Professor, are you okay? I mean, I could hear your knuckles cracking from here." Everyone had heard that, right? It wasn't just her?

Schuyler bit back a grin when Professor Flamsteed couldn't seem to meet her eyes. And the way his voice cracked! Precious. She actually made a mental note, when the thought popped in her head, to see if she could dig out some old yearbooks from the library. See what her professors were like as students at Hogwarts. Three guesses that Airey tripped over himself three times as much back then as he did now.

"Nothing else borrowed, fortunately." And it was nice of him to ask.

But now she was in her seat and they were starting class. And Flamsteed was dropping an egg onto the floor. Her blue eyes followed it up above his head and then the splatter after it had fallen. What did this symbolize? Big Bang. Didn't have to be a pro astronomer to know that one. And a lot of other people started spewing out this answer, so Schuyler just wore a little smile and dipped her quill in her ink before beginning to doodle a stylized sun in the margin of her paper.

Lucas gave Lux a HUGE grin. Ugh YES? Maybe there'd be telescopes and he'd discover like a new PLANET. How cool would that be!? And as Adi sat down, Lucas squinted a little.

"Uh.. mate is that a-" and he pointed to his head before he frowned realising that it was kind of SUPER impolite to point something like that out. Uhm. Best keep quiet. "-fishtank?" he finished lamely, pointing at what clearly was a fish tank. Um. Awkward.
Lucas grinned in surprise as Professor Airey (really?! He was dropping the formalities now after all that?!) dropped the egg unceremoniously. But Lucas was PREEEETTTY sure he knew what was up. He'd grown up in a largely muggle community and knowing your basic science stuff was kind of prerequisite.

"The big bang!" Lucas piped up. "But I don't think a guy in a suit dropped an egg and created the universe. But yeah. Close enough." And anyway it was a COOL demonstration. Way cool.

Well he was certainly one for the dramatics wasn't old Airey? Michael was glad that he wasn't sitting near the front otherwise he would probably be wearing some of that egg.

He raised his hand when the Professor asked his question. "Besides being a very messy situation. I agree with everyone else that it is a representation of the Big Bang. The end of one thing and the beginning of another." Or something like that.

Miss Asteroid? Of course, it was no big deal for Astrid. She even grinned at the Astronomy Professor. "Sure you can, Professor!" Asteroids were pretty, and having a pretty name was nice. After all, "Miss Asteroid" is what Hayley called her too. Astrid approved of the name anyway. As for the fish, Astrid smiled even more when the Professor said that his pet fish was glad they were here. "Awww! I'm glad that he's here too, Professor." So... she needed more details about the fish. Name? Breed? Age? The vital stuff, you know? But that could wait until the class ended. She knew that it would start in a bit.

AND THEN OH MERLIN DID PROFESSOR FLAMSTEED JUST DROP THE EGG? Wibble. Astrid wibbled a bit. Why...? She looked at the fallen egg and blinked. It could've lived a long life if it wasn't dropped. Too bad. Just too bad. Rest in peace, egg. But at least it died for the good of the students. It died for educational purposes. It lived a good life, indeed. But... she didn't know what that illustrated. She'd just have to give it a try.

Astrid raised her hand. "It shows one of the bad sides of gravity." Heh. It was true though.

Man Oichi felt foolish, somehow from the back of the classroom she saw the egg picture but she never saw it get crushed, but obviously her classmates had, now the term crude demonstration made more sense, and the answer she gave already was just plain silly. She raised her hand again and said, "Somehow I did not notice the egg getting crushed but now that I have I'd like to revise my answer. I think it is the demonstration of a meteor, comet, or asteroid hitting a planet because they are destroyed once they hit the ground and the impact and new chemicals they carry as they come hurdling toward a planet can end any life as they know it.".

Miss Comet, yup! That was her. She would have said something, but that was when the professor person decided to close the doors and start the lesson. Grinning at Astrid instead, she nodded vigorously. They could talk after class, yeah. Walk down the never-ending sets of stairs together too.

WHAT WAS GOING ON? Class, obviously, but it was going by so quickly and Hayley was still slightly confused. Chicken and eggs and phoenixes and fire? It didn't sound much like Astronomy at all, but if she was learning it, she supposed it had to be related. Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

"I think it would be the phoenix. If it was 'Which came first, the [i]ashwinder[/s] or the flame?' we might have a different answer, though." Hayley liked the idea of magical creatures. Her mom dealt with those a lot.

But then he was dropping eggs and Hayley didn't really feel very comfortable about it. That was one chicken who gave its life for nothing. Wasn't it sad? As for what it represented, Hayley blinked a few times before giving Astrid a distressed look. How was she supposed to know this? All Hayley could see was the really really sad waste of an egg. No resemblance to Astronomy at all, but she wrote down her classmates' theories too. Did she get it? No.

BLINK.

Sarah knew that was not what they were doing, but she wanted to bring ahppieness around, so creative suggestions was one way.
UGH! Was that the sound of cracking knuckled? Sarah winced, as the sound grated on her nerves... Who did that?

Sarah watched with interest the profossor as he began to talk.. than came the egg. By now Sarah had guessed what was going on and raised "Maybe it is abour the Big Bang Theory" Sarah emphasied the latter part, a theory it will always be. "There is a THEORY that long long ago... scientists are always adding years as to them time is infinite, and it takes a lot of years for their theory to make slight sense... there was a ball of something that exploded on the earth and supposedly made the world we live in, which started a chain of events called evolution... its a long story. Like all muggles science discoveries it is ikely to be debated on, changed, swayed, adapted forever more. Because scientists can never agree on anything" Sarah than eyed the egg on the floor, "Professor" she said in a calm voice, keeping her voice polite, "is it possible that if in the future you have to do such demonstrations you don't use food? Because It breaks my heart to see food wasted, food that could be put to better use" Also, she did not think nice things about people that waasted and she did not want to think that about the professor.

Ian sat there and listened as all the different ideas about what the egg dropping was about. Of course he was still sure it didn't represent the big bang, but hey! he was just a muggle kid in a magical world in an astronomy class. What did he know.

He reached up to scratch his head as all these answers floated about. When he went to take his hand down, he felt some of his hair come with it. When he looked down, he saw red hairs and oddly enough he also saw a few white ones. That was strange. I've never seen white hairs come off my head. And so many of them at one time. He shrugged and decided it was nothing. He was unaware that his hair was now red streaked throughout with bits of white. (he tended not to use a mirror to comb his hair as it was easier to just brush his hands through it after his morning shower).

Tora knew Professor Flamsteed was referring to the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe, but she could relate it father back than that. The chicken and the egg, the phoenix and the flame. "Is this about the theory that the Big Bang was caused by a black hole in another universe?" she said, raising her hand to speak. She felt the need to elaborate though, just in case the professor didn't understand. "I mean the one where every black hole is a parent to another universe and that the black holes trigger what begins the Big Bangs of other worlds. Not String Theory... but the other one. I forget what it's called," she gave a hopeful grin. She might be reading too much into it, but it did fulfill the phoenix and the flame analogy.

Vesper was already jotting notes, remaining quiet as the Professor greeted the class and began speaking; a slew of information leaving his mouth. She appreciate Professor Flamsteed. He was such a cheerful man and it was hard to feel gloomy in his presence. That and she liked the exuberance.

She vaguely wondered if there would be desk hopping today...

When he dropped the egg, causing it to bust, the Ravenclaw's first thought was 'Murder'...but she was sure he didn't mean it to symbolize that in particular. Everyone was mentioning the Big Bang Theory, in while case the cosmos were created...according to literature.

Of course, that just made her think about Greek mythology and the Chaos Theory. It also made her question how closely related science and myths were. As someone who did a ton of thinking, Vesper had her own theories about all the things and for now, choose to just listen. There wasn't much she could offer now...but it was still early in the lesson. Maybe with the next question...

For now, she began to sketch the egg falling in it's various stages; falling, then connecting with the ground and cracking...and then whites and yolk exploding from the scattered shell.