How might matter have come out of nothing in the beginning?

Answer 1

For those readers with a scientific mind: according to Einstein, mass and energy are interchangeable as illustrated by the famous formula E=mc2. This is commonly referred to as the “Law of Conservation of Mass-Energy”. This still is a hotly debated topic in physics circles, with strong arguments on both sides. So, if there was no matter in the beginning, there certainly must have been energy. Where did the energy come from? That’s a whole different question, now isn’t it?

For readers with a religious mind: God made everything. Period.

Myself, I’ve spent well over half my life as an absolute atheist, where there was always a rational scientific explanation for everything. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve seen too much, and experienced too many things that fall outside the realm of conventional science, and have now come to a place where I’ve accepted religion into life.

For me to do that, I’ve had to fuse two (often very adamant) polar opposites. I look at the world and realize no matter how you believe it was created, for it to simply exist (whether created by God, Buddha, the Big Bang, or simply coalesced out of the ether) it must have rules that govern how things fit and work.

What we call science is simply us very simple creatures on this planet learning all the little rules that make things work. Long ago, we “discovered” gravity, which is kind of funny being that it’s literally been there right under our feet all along. But as society grew, we graduated from understanding the big rules like gravity, mass, and energy, to learning about the little ones like atoms and quantum physics.

But we are generations away from really knowing it all. I mean, consider the most basic law we learned long ago: we know what gravity is, and can tell you in specific detail what it does and how it affects things. But, we cannot ~create~ artificial gravity. We are still very young when it comes to understanding our world.

So for me personally, do I believe a divine being created this world and universe? Yes. I also believe that science explains how it all works.

Answer 2

Hey, Rob!

Good question. You could solve the mystery with faith, but that would not be rational, or scientific. However, both the theory of the Big Bang and Religion suggests a beginning to the universe at some point (+/- 20 Billion Years Ago). Both theories have their own inherent problems. The big bang theory has several, planets spinning in opposite directions; matter cannot be destroyed, nor created, etc, etc.
Religion has similar problems, but mostly requires blind faith and irrationality.

In my own ignorance, I have often wondered this. Since Dr. Hawking and others have discovered the working of a black holes sucking everything to a single singularity of infinite density and gravity, and maybe/ maybe not, spit everything out on the other side in a different part of the universe. How far fetched would it seem to say that the supposed singularity of the big bang and the singularity of a black hole might be the same thing?

This of course does not yet explain how the universe is so well tuned, or the slight possibility that life happened by chance. Anyway, it is just food for thought!

Regards.

Answer 3

well... that's assuming there was a "beginning", which is a pretty big assumption. I honestly don't think there was a beginning as we know it. There could be more than one universe. Infact, our enitre universe could have sprung from a multitude of universes, one probability in an infinite sea of probabilities. I know it's hard to comprehend the idea of infinity, but that's just a limitation of our senses and intellect, it doesn't mean it's an impossibility. I believe there's an eternal, mysterious, creative force at work which is called by many names - some call it "Tao", others may call it "God", but whatever the name, it's responsible for the creation of our reality. I think perhaps it's the "nothing" that you talk about. There is a place for science, but with a metaphysical question such as this, perhaps only philosophy or religion can come close to an answer.

Answer 4

It's impossible. The big bang theory is no better than what the bible the Koran or any other such rot gives. Scientists are just as clueless to the beginning of the universe as anyone else.

There was nothing. And bang. Everything came into being and is still expanding. And on the seventh day he rested

Answer 5

I don't know if this makes any sense but

The universe tends towards chaos. Neutrality tends to divide into positive and negative forces. It is possible that out of nothing, the neutrality of the universe split into opposing forces. These opposing forces could have been a proton and electron. So basically, in the begining, the universe may have been the size of a Hydrogen atom, which over billions of years went under fision and fusion and radiation and all that good stuff to form everything else.

Answer 6

we quite can no longer say with any truth what the universe became like before the large bang. Their is a fave false impression that the large bang "created" the universe ex-nihlo. in spite of the indisputable fact that the present hypothesis is that the universe all started as a singularity. Singularities are puzzling to describe as many of the classic guidelines of physics breakdown or do no longer carry in a singularity. by using breakdown of regularly happening actual guidelines, it isn't plausible to sort a pre enormous bang universe in the present day. One regularly happening set of guidelines that look inviolate is the conservation of skill. and considering all of us understand that remember and ability are an similar ingredient from the Einstein relationship E=mc^2, then all of us understand that remember and ability had to exist in some sort in the course of the singularity. it may purely be in a sort we doesn't comprehend.

Answer 7

Who said there was nothing in the beginning?
There was a small, infinitely dense matter whose temperature was very high. This small thing exploded. This explosion is called The BIG BANG

Answer 8

it was a extremely dense ball of matter (now dont ask me what that matter is) and exploded making it the big bang (of course no one heard it) and is now what it is today. (yeah a mess!)
but according to me one can try harder but wont be able to find the real meaning. the day this happens it would be the last day of the entire race of earth

Answer 9

because the beginning was just after the ending.... there were some left-overs!!!

Answer 10

This is where the religious gurus come in!!!!