Who made the matter that blew up in the Big Bang?

Question

You know, that little super-heavy ball of dirt that went KAPOW! And presto, formed galaxies and solar systems, and now billions of years later, here we are. Did the matter that exploded in the Big Bang make itself? Did it come from a different Big Bang billions of years earlier? If so, where did that matter come from? Help me understand.

Answer 1

Your question displays a common misperception of the Big Bang. The Big Bang was not literally an explosion, rather an expansion of space itself that continues today.

There are some hypotheses as to what caused this event, although I don't think we'll ever know for sure. It would have been nice if the US could have spent some of the money it is wasting in Iraq to build a new Supercollider.


One hypothesis is that a space-time vacuum fluctuation in another universe opened up a new fabric resulting in our own universe.

Answer 2

The Big Bang was not a little ball of anything---it was effectively infinite in size at all times after time zero. (Perhaps not actually infinite, but it could have been infinite as far as the equations are concerned.)

The total energy of the Big Bang could be zero, so there is no net positive amount of matter to start with. The energy of the matter we see is balanced by the negative potential energy of gravity. What actually had to be there, to make the Big Bang, was a vacuum with empty fields in it. This is not Nothing, in the philisophical sense, but it's not very much. The current understanding of this in Physics is clearly inadequate, but if a "Theory of Everything" is developed, our understanding may be better.

You can call the cause of all this "God" if you like, but it doesn't really solve the "first cause" problem. Furthermore, there is no evidence that creative "God" is a being who takes a detailed personal interest in the lives of humans.

Answer 3

It wasn't a ball of dirt that exploded. Big Bang is a lousy term. The thought is that through a quantum fluctuation a field collapsed causing a release of energy. A while later the energy ( radiation) was converted to mass. Matter is made of positive energy and the gravity between the matter is negative energy. It may add to zero. Another thought is that it was the result of two "branes" (dimensions) colliding which caused it. Bottom line is no one knows.

Answer 4

Nobody knows. The big bang theory is merely a hypothesis based on prevalent atomic theory combined with more established themes in thermodynamics. It addresses the observed motion and possible expansion of the universe as well as the proliferation of matter in the void of space.

It does not attempt to explain the creation of reality.
Simply a plausible scenario leading to our planet based on the best information we have available right now.

Answer 5

There was no matter that caused the big bang. All the matter in the Universe was made within the first few milliseconds after the Big Bang.

Answer 6

The question of loose Will isn't a technological information question yet one in all religion and philosophy. Our souls enter a actual physique at delivery. From that component, can we've loose will or loose determination? Our souls plan out a life-time formerly arriving right here. So we've not got loose Will yet we do have loose determination...the freedome to elect the two rooster or ham for lunch.

Answer 7

Mother Nature

Answer 8

There was no matter in the material that made up the material
which blew up in the big bank...
It was pure enegry...

Answer 9

"Who" made it?

This is Astronomy & Space, not Religion & Spirituality. If you really want to know about Big Bang, study it. Don't expect anyone to spoon-feed it to you. Here's an easy link to get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang

Happy reading.

Answer 10

It was created by God.