Events have a cause and effect. We live, we are informed, in the effect; what therefore caused it all?
2006-11-01 12:59:44 · 6 answers · asked by Richard H 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We're working on it. Check back later for an answer which will not include the words 'god did it'.
2006-11-01 13:12:41 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Causality only applies at atomic levels and up. When you get into the subatomic realm quantum effects dominate and nature gets fuzzy. In other words, things can happen for no reason at all [but beware - this doesn't mean that Deepak Chopra has the slightest idea what he's talking about!].
Quantum mechanics deals with probabilities. Space has what is called a 'vacuum energy' which adds up to zero but which can be either positive or negative. Given enough time, improbable events such as the spontaneous creation of 'virtual particles' will occur. Usually these particles appear as matter-antimatter pairs, and usually they recombine and disappear in very short times. These fluctuations in space result in no net gain or loss of energy, so physicists have no problem with them.
It gets interesting when extremely improbable events happen, such as the spontaneous creation of very massive or very long-lived virtual particles. Some people speculate that the Big Bang was one of these incredibly rare quantum fluctuations, with a probability almost but not quite zero. It would require more time than anyone can imagine for this to happen, however with no one around to get bored waiting that doesn't matter.
So here we are, and with no deities required.
2006-11-01 14:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A big nubula of gas and particles together
Positrons and Antipositrons, basically matter and antimatter, all formed together, then the quarks did, then we get what we know as protons and electrons start to come together. Then Basically We got hydrogen, and from then on other molecules. This all happened in the span of nanoseconds. At least thats one theroy
2006-11-01 13:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows yet but it could have been initiated by a super intelligence in a prior dying universe that needed a new home, not necessarily God. Someday soon we'll know...
2006-11-01 14:39:56 · answer #4 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anti gravity
2006-11-01 13:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by ziaq 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yo big fat MAMA
2006-11-01 13:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by leo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋