If matter cannot be created nor destroyed, how is everything that exists (matter) existing?

Question

More specifically, if matter can't be created then how is matter even existant in the first place, please clearify this for me.

Answer 1

God created everything. Start reading your Bible at Genesis 1:1.

Answer 2

The simple answer is just to say that everything came from the big bang. A tiny singularity exploded into everything that we see today. All of the energy, and therefore matter, in the universe was created at that time. Since most of the physical laws break down at the time right around the big bang and none affect it before hand there's no violation of any laws for the universe to just come into existence. If you want to learn more about theories that describe the universe before hand look into brane theory.

Answer 3

As creatures who perceive a linear existance of creation-existance-disappearance, it's hard for us conceive of something existing in both directions. Believe it or not, nothing that exists has ever not existed. Interestingly enough, a work of scripture points this out:

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." God to his disciple Arjuna, Bhagavad Gita 2:12

Since people are energy, and energy is energy no matter the form, this goes for non-living things, too. Nothing ever has been created, and nothing has ever been destroyed.

Answer 4

Matter is neither created, nor it exists independently. Entire existence is a holistic interaction - an interplay between what is loosely termed as "matter" and "energy".
What "exists" for each of us at a given moment is a particular configuration or matrix, comprised of multiple levels of energy & matter, depending on our powers of comprehension. It's everchanging & no two moments are the same. In a sense, every moment is an illusion and a relative reality at the same time. It's transient & specific to the person or cognitive faculty which is experiencing it.

Answer 5

The current scientific hypothesis is that in the origin or the Universe (the Big-Bang) energy emerged from nothing due to a quantum fluctuation of the vacuum, a possibility according to the indetermination principle of Heisemberg. Then it came the expansion and the cooling of energy produced also matter. Energy and matter are aspects of the same entity.

Answer 6

Matter is formed from atomic mass that is bound together.

No one really knows where all the mass of the universe came from.

If you subscribe to the Big Bang concept, then electrons and protons were released just after the initial gamma radiation and started bonding to form all the hydrogen in the universe and then other gases. Large lumps of hot atomic mass bind together due to the density and gravitational mass which then forms stars, smaller masses cool faster in space (absolue zero) and this mass eventually forms iron, rock, etc. The planets and asteroids and metors and comets.

That's basically how all the matter forms.

Gases can evolove naturally by atomic binding. Solid matter comes by force of heat, gravity and cooling leaving residues and other converted mass.

Remember, things can be converted. But the total mass used to make the conversion has to be accounted for in atomic weight, release of heat, small particles, etc.

Answer 7

In that assumption you find a paradox. The fact is that matter can be created and destroyed.

Energy that moves faster than the speed of light exists as energy. When it slows to sub-light it becomes a particle. As more and more particles accumulate matter develops. And transversely, when matter is accelerated beyond the speed of light it transforms into energy. Or so the thought among scientists goes.

Answer 8

We should really talk about mass-energy - it is perfectly possible to go from energy to mass and vice versa provided this total is conserved.

Then there are two possibilities:

1. Mass energy is conserved only most of the time. The only known violation would be the big bang.

2. There is no net mass energy in the universe. This would be true if the -ve gravitational energy of the universe that comes from pulling all the stars apart balances the total mass the universe contains.

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Answer 9

That is what many scientits think about. But the big bang theory states that a small universe, size of a nut, which was VERY dense exploded and spread that dense matter accross the universe, that is how matter was bought about. BUT i don't get it, something the size of a nut exapnds into a huge universe creating trillions of trillions ^ trillion tons of matter. So all the scientific theories in my opinion are useless and not accurate or correct. God created everything, and even sciene supports it. If matter can't be created, someone else (god) created everything and from there, sciece was born.

Answer 10

Matter can be converted to energy. In the big bang there was nothing but light for the first seconds. "Let there be light" Then as the universe expanded and cooled the matter formed from the energy.

remember E=mc^2

Now ask this question in the religion section.

Answer 11

That's a very long answer. I'm writting about, start with this the Big Bang is History. Do you know a editor interested on?