How did matter come to be?

Question

The big bang theory states all matter was together at one point and an explosion sent it all hurling outward thus creating the universe. Thats great but what explains how the matter was there to begin with? Where did the matter that everything is made of come from??

Answer 1

The visible matter that makes up us and everything around us is created through a process called nucleosynthesis. Matter is made up of atoms and atoms are created through this process.

The lighter atoms (hydrogen atoms like protium and deuterium as well as helium) were said to be created during Big Bang nucleosynthesis. This explains the abundance of these atoms in the universe.

Stellar nucleosynthesis creates matter as well, through nuclear fusion (inside of stars), carbon is one such element.

Finally the heaviest elements like iron (in your blood, in your car, etc) are created when large stars explode (explosive nucleosynthesis.)

This is what scientists mean when they say that we are all just "stardust".

Answer 2

The universe started with a single space-time pulse some time after time zero.
It was a two dimensional singularity,it established the shortest time that could ever exist.
The second pulse established the shortest distance that could ever be.
In the next thirty-billionths of a second it exploded out to a 1cm ball with a radial speed of the speed of light.
It was pure space-time,no matter,no heat,no strong or weak forces and no electro-magnetism and no gravity.
It contained a quantum effect that would eventually evolve into the universe that you experience to-day.

Answer 3

First of all, at time zero of the big bang, as far as hypothesized, our entire universe was crammed into a point called a singularity. At that point, matter and energy and our universe did not exist as we know it. As near as we can determine, EVERYTHING was in a state inconceivable by our science as all of our physical laws break down as we approach time zero. This state of everything greatly exceeded the state that we know as plasma (the state where electrons are released from the proton).

Answer 4

This very question my friend is what helped me to believe in God which I had never done before. I was an atheist and had my little ways of talking about questions like these without having a God. . When I was 14 years old, I came up with a theory,' from nothing came something'. that is what I proposed to myself, by putting two nothings together you come up with something. And it fit into my little atheistic mind. It made sense to me at the time how something came from nothing even though it wasnt necessarily verifiable truth. And that is what I wanted to know what is the truth of how matter came into being or came to be formed where did It come from. I kept trying and trying for 2 more years made myself believe my little theory my mind had conjured up. This theory that something came from nothing. And through a question I asked myself that was almost identical to yours, I was able to find the truth of certain things. Truth. The Truth about things. The truth is Matter came from God. I found out that there is a Creator, a very smart, powerful being and nice also who didnt scold me for not knowing much truth, and through his spirit I was taught the truth about a few things., my finite brain couldn't even start to comprehend where that matter came from. and that my brain wasn't designed to understand the question of where or how matter came from or was formed.

Answer 5

matter is just another manifestation of energy - think of water is it a plasma, ice, liquid, steam or gas whatever it is, it is all those and more. break it down to its atoms to particles of atoms to sub atomic particles - we sooner or later have energy. we think of forces as fields as matter. read up on string theory

Answer 6

...Ah, the grandest question of all! MY assumption is that matter essentially comes from 'dark matter'...which serves as 'proto-matter'.

"matter" as we refer to it, generally indicates observable matter to us humans. the "proto-matter" which makes up the "matter" we've come to know as "atoms" and their sub-particles (quarks, gluons, etc...ad infinitum), heads towards that world of infinite smallness...and is so far quite mysterious and unobservable past one order of smallness (e.g. protons are made of quarks)

THIS however does not mean it doesnt exist....Dark Matter has recently been proven to exist...yet still cannot be observed. i would wager/guess/assume that the detectable matter with which we work with is created from "dark matter" via pure chance or some bizarre phenomenon we have yet to understand or observe.