Can you describe your belief about the origin of matter?

Question

How does anything exist at all?

Answer 1

It's what is in between the molecules, not the visibly measured structures, but the unseen forces that make the measured structures.

Existance is moving in and out of existance and appears to be a constant flow of energy that says "now I'm here and now I'm gone."

We are made of nothing from the nothing and appear to be something. Cool, huh?

So, everytime we go past the measurable to the unmeasurable, we will always define it as God.

That's why scientists believe in God, just not mythology.

Answer 2

Inflaton theory.

Nonexistence would be perfectly deterministic. This would violate Heisenburg's Indeterminancy Principle. Existence therefore has to be infinite in space and time. This is the universe, the whole of which is the inflaton.

However, the visible portion of the universe, that which is commonly called the universe, did have a beginning, starting with an inflationary era as a quantum ripple on the inflaton reached a high enough energy density to cause a vacuum phase state change (kind of like ice melting into water when exposed to energy). Since the vacuum collapsed to a lower energy state, the excess was released as a massive expansion of spacetime and the conversion of huge amounts of virtual particles to real particles.

Answer 3

Well consider two conditions:

1. There was a god to "cause" matter to happen / "start" the big bang. God itself would not be composed of matter, due to problems of infinite regress - after all, where does the matter for god come from?

2. There was no "cause" for the big bang to occur, it simply appeared/occurred and "we're here because we're here."

Now, people will try and superimpose god into this problem in part one for religious reasons, rather than scientific model reasons.

But if you think about it, why would god even bother to exist? Wouldn't god have the same problem we do - why even exist at all? Would it not be more parsimonious for nothing at all to exist - including god or the universe?

As you can see, adding "god" into a first cause, or giving "reason" to things exist doesn't actually solve the original problem - we've only moved it a step back in the causal chain. Also, for those who insist you can't get "something from nothing", would god not apply equally here as well?

Quite simply, god isn't needed in the model. As Stephen Hawking quite simply explains, concerning ourselves with what "happened before the big bang" is synonymous with standing at the north pole and asking which way is north. It shouldn't concern us in the slightest. My model of the universe is that it came into existence from either pre-existing conditions that are non-specific and unimportant, or no coniditions at all.

From there, I think the explanation of why matter is here follows - the expansion of the singularity.

Answer 4

In the beginning there was no beginning, and the Great Void existed not but the potentials of a trillion trillion infinities permeated all possible dimensions, and a great membrane of dimensions arose and floated on the possibilities of the potentials, an lo did a bubble of dimensions break symmetry and cause a great expansion of rapid inflation. And out of the Great Void did a multitude of dimensions representing the laws of Physics give rise to the physical Universe, the Creation without a Creator.

Answer 5

Matter or the whole world actually exists only in the mind. For example, if I am holding a cup in my hand, in reality the signals are being sent to my brain from my skin and eyes.And becoz of these signals I 'feel' that I am holding the cup. Everything we see around us are nothing but signals sent to the brain. We can never know for sure if these things really exist outside of us. This is true when we r dreaming too. We can touch and feel new things and meet new people which in reality does not exist, only when we wake up we know that we've been dreaming. Matter in reality has no existence,maybe when we wake up from this dream(death) we'd realize that our whole life was just a dream!

Answer 6

Yes. I loved reading about the origin of matter in the Gnostic gospels. If you read - the origin of the world - it documents a facinating account of how the world of matter came to be.

Seeing that everybody, gods of the world and mankind, says that nothing existed prior to chaos, I, in distinction to them, shall demonstrate that they are all mistaken, because they are not acquainted with the origin of chaos, nor with its root. Here is the demonstration.

How well it suits all men, on the subject of chaos, to say that it is a kind of darkness! But in fact it comes from a shadow, which has been called by the name 'darkness'. And the shadow comes from a product that has existed since the beginning. It is, moreover, clear that it existed before chaos came into being, and that the latter is posterior to the first product. Let us therefore concern ourselves with the facts of the matter; and furthermore, with the first product, from which chaos was projected. And in this way the truth will be clearly demonstrated.

After the natural structure of the immortal beings had completely developed out of the infinite, a likeness then emanated from Pistis (Faith); it is called Sophia (Wisdom). It exercised volition and became a product resembling the primeval light. And immediately her will manifested itself as a likeness of heaven, having an unimaginable magnitude; it was between the immortal beings and those things that came into being after them, like [...]: she (Sophia) functioned as a veil dividing mankind from the things above.

Now the eternal realm (aeon) of truth has no shadow outside it, for the limitless light is everywhere within it. But its exterior is shadow, which has been called by the name 'darkness'. From it, there appeared a force, presiding over the darkness. And the forces that came into being subsequent to them called the shadow 'the limitless chaos'. From it, every kind of divinity sprouted up [...] together with the entire place, so that also, shadow is posterior to the first product. It was the abyss that it (shadow) appeared, deriving from the aforementioned Pistis.

Then shadow perceived there was something mightier than it, and felt envy; and when it had become pregnant of its own accord, suddenly it engendered jealousy. Since that day, the principle of jealousy amongst all the eternal realms and their worlds has been apparent. Now as for that jealousy, it was found to be an abortion without any spirit in it. Like a shadow, it came into existence in a vast watery substance. Then the bile that had come into being out of the shadow was thrown into a part of chaos. Since that day, a watery substance has been apparent. And what sank within it flowed away, being visible in chaos: as with a woman giving birth to a child - all her superfluities flow out; just so, matter came into being out of shadow, and was projected apart. And it did not depart from chaos; rather, matter was in chaos, being in a part of it.

Answer 7

Origin didn't matter, at first. It's only because of our longing to know our source that our origin began to matter, literally. Put your hand in front of your face....you do exist. At night, you dream and see that we are more than just the physical.

Answer 8

Science is working on this but doesn't yet have an answer.

I'm satisfied with not yet knowing. Two hundred years ago, science didn't know the cause of diseases, but now we understand a lot about bacteria, viruses, and genetics.

If we ascribe it all to God, then we stop looking. If we say we don't know, we can remain curious and keep up the search for an answer. I prefer curiosity to divinity any day.

Answer 9

Tantra and Shakta paths of Hinduism explain the origin of matter

The supreme consciousness separates its energy.

This Eternal Energy resonates between two poles and the first building block of matter is manifested.

This building block turns to Photons...which turns to electrons and finally matter

As per Tantra belief, even a tiny electron is a combination of Consciousness and Energy

Answer 10

Apparently there was a super condensed particle of matter and energy that exploded thereby setting the universe in motion but in the absence of viable evidence to prove where it came from it is pointless to speculate on it.