What is the universe made of?

Answer 1

Matter (116 Elements known so far) (94 of them found elsewhere in the universe, to date) and anti-matter (the same elements but with anti-protons in the nucleus and positrons instead of electrons circling around the nucleus),

What are these Elements called?

In 1959 Tom Lehrer sang the following ditty to a Harvard audience (to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General)

``There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

``There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

``There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

``There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.

``These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.''

(a few of the 116 eg Seaborgium were discovered after 1959 and are therefore not in the song)

For a Flash animation of the song go to
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

Answer 2

The universe consists of all matter and elements along with 4 dimensions that 3 dimensions hold energy and matter in.
We live in the macro universe. The micro universe is the molecular universe.
The intra universe is a warp of ours and the externa universe is 5+ dimensional.
All matter exists in our universe. Matter, energy, etc.
22 percent is dark energy 74 percent is dark matter 4 percent is all other matter to the macro universe.

Answer 3

“In the beginning .. “ You may consider the universe made of information. The lows of thermodynamics can be translated in terms of theory of information. And the increase of entropy means that the universe is forgetting…

Answer 4

Matter...but since matter and energy are interchangeable (according to Einstein's relativity), in effect all of the matter in the universe is just energy in matter form. Matter arose from the energy in the Big Bang, and if there's a "big crunch" sometime in our future, all of the matter will go back to being energy.

Answer 5

Baaske Jacobs, you know these piepschuim pellets they put in boxes with electrical equipment in it?
That's what the universe is made of.

Answer 6

Our best theory at the moment suggests that, at its core, everything is made up of the vibrations emanating from tiny tiny little stringlike structures called "superstrings". This is horribly oversimplified but I suggest you go to your browser and search "superstring theory" and sit back and prepare to be confused and amazed.

Answer 7

You've already got several "best answers" - just remember that there is no empty space - what's there is real but indefinable, so here's your chance of a Nobel Prize.

Answer 8

mostly empty space, about 90 % of it is empty space.but spinkled throughout are planets and stars consisting of various gases and solids. these come together to form star systems, and those grouped together make up various galaxies.

Answer 9

Mostly Hydrogen and Helium.

Answer 10

Energy in the form of radiation, energy in the form of matter and vacum energy.