2006-08-14 17:13:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It is difficult to explain, but I'll make an analogy.
Suppose you have a flat surface, nothing. Then one day you take a shovel full of stuff out of the surface and make a pile next to it. You have created a hole and a pile of stuff. If you add the pile of stuff to the hole you end up again with nothing. You have balance as long as the hole can be filled with the exact amount of stuff in the pile.
The stuff in the pile is matter and hole is anti matter. If you put them together, you end up with nothing (and a big amount of energy).
It ends up that matter and antimatter form all the time on their own in "virtual" pairs. Because one is a "pile" and the other is a "hole" nothing is actually created (+1 + -1 = 0). The reason that there is more matter than antimatter is that antimatter is slightly less stable than matter.
The real question is not where the stuff came from, but where the energy came from. That is a mystery to us at this point, but there are some guesses.
The guesses are not correct, so I won't mention them.
2006-08-15 04:23:19 · answer #1 · answered by Bernard B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder that all the time - the energy was just there and there is no explanation beyond that. Well, Hawkings said it started with a "quantum fluctuation" that brought the matter/energy out of nothing, but that doesn't really help me. The philosophers have been having a coniption fit on this for eons.
So, if "God" put the energy there, then that would explain how it got there. But who put God there? An even more powerful pre-God?
Really, you can't get around the idea that something exists beyond this universe that defined the laws of physics and put the energy there, and set it up with some initial information. But this is not really teh same God in the Bible of course! Hawking's "god" put the universe in motion then left it alone.
2006-08-15 00:40:50 · answer #2 · answered by Captain_Ahab_ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This would be a 'chicken n egg' question.....if someone were to say 'X created the matter' then you would like to know 'what created X', if you had an answer for that then you would like to what created that and ad infinitum.....
This could be something on the lines of some times what physicists say "out of nothing a pair of particle and antiparticle is created"......similarly "out of nothing the whole of universe(matter) and anti-universe(anti-matter) was created". We only see "universe" and do not see the "anti-universe".
BTW the discussion on this topic is "the height of speculation" :)
2006-08-15 01:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by Infinity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answer that and you'll win the nobel peace prize.
The big bang is the biggest theory nowadays, besides GOD, but the data of where things are doesn't match where they should be, so they had to alter it, putting it in question.
2006-08-15 00:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by adklsjfklsdj 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly from a 'time' in space around 13billion years ago where space and time where one thing. That's why we still can't find exactly when everything happened as time back then didn't exist as a dimension.
2006-08-15 03:45:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And God said, "Let there be a 'Big Band'" and there was.
2006-08-15 09:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know yet. The best guess... from God.
2006-08-15 02:04:24 · answer #7 · answered by slynx000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
enrgy was there all the time.......
2006-08-15 00:20:06 · answer #8 · answered by indrakeerthi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋