2006-08-29 06:44:54 · 11 answers · asked by sunny 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The Big Bang created the pieces of matter necessary for atoms. A few miliseconds after the big bang, neutrinos started to decay into protons, and then some protons into electrons. Thus hydrogen is born and the first atoms are created
2006-08-29 07:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by jtrigoboff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of impossible to know that. Maybe the Big Bang created protons, neutrons, and electrons from whatever it was that was there before that. Maybe atoms were just there. Something had to just be there, right? For all I know, it COULD have been God.
Dirtyrubberduck: Well, then why did it have to be God? Your claim is, if I'm not mistaken, that there must be something which defies the laws of the universe, since those laws alone make existence impossible. But those laws only state that matter cannot be created from nothing. They do not insist that it had to be created, in the first place.
2006-08-29 13:54:37 · answer #2 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. If the Big Bang theory is correct then for a time there were nothing but quarks, the so called "quark soup". The universe had to cool enough for the quarks to combine into particles, mostly protons and electrons (and their anti-particles). It was still too hot for normal atoms to form. If I understand correctly it took about 300,000 years (or some number) for the universe to cool sufficiently to allow electrons to bind with protons. These would be the first atoms.
2006-08-29 13:59:20 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
atoms have been around since the first speck of the universe existed.
2006-08-29 13:49:45 · answer #4 · answered by Chatty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a great book is by Bill Bryson -- a short explanation of everything -
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson
just click on A Short History of Nearly Everything and the the Excerpt key
2006-08-29 13:57:08 · answer #5 · answered by Stacy R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God. That's the best argument I've heard for the existance of a supreme being. Where did everything come from otherwise?
2006-08-29 13:48:23 · answer #6 · answered by dirtyrubberduck 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was created from ENERGY that was so dense that it finally became matter. (Superstring/M-theory). Energy is something that either has always existed or was created by God, the decision is up to you.
2006-08-29 14:29:48 · answer #7 · answered by eldridan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For sure it was out in the universe no dout about
2006-08-29 13:49:04 · answer #8 · answered by Montee P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Garden of Eden maybe? (Just kidding)
2006-08-29 14:15:15 · answer #9 · answered by WillO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God had chili the night before and well... BIG BANG!
2006-08-29 13:50:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋