Since the beginning of time, people have wanted to know how it all began. How did our Earth come to be in the state it is today? How did natural forces effect the Earth? This book is part of a series called The Continental Cataclysm that addresses these questions. The series starts with looking at how the Solar System formed and gave birth to our Earth. Observations from the Hubble Telescope and NASA space probes provide evidence that the beginning of a solar system starts with a nebula that turns into a swirling flat disc. A specific nebula, a gigantic cloud of atoms, is where the new theory presented in this book starts. This new theory, Mass Vortex Theory, also includes a swirling flat disc. but in almost every other way, the explanation is a departure from anything advanced so far. It explains the features of our Solar System, including the distances between planets, their spins, their densities, their axial tilts, how their respective atmospheres formed, where Saturn's rings came from, how Jupiter's red spot really occurred, the origin of Earth's ocean, how Earth's moon became present, and how the Sun started. This book presents new ideas to advance our understanding of planet formation and what happened to bring about the Solar System as we know it today. It is tailored to a broad audience with lots of pictures.