What Is the Universe Made Of?

Answer 1

73% Dark Energy
23% Dark Matter
4% Atoms

(...as far as scientists are able to determine)

Answer 2

Very simply the Universe is made of energy. I saw some people referencing matter and dark matter or different percentages of each. These are all well and good but then you must ask well what is matter made of? and then what are atoms made of? The current theories of quantum physics would say the universe is comprised of energy in different configurations. Energy that is tightly bundled and tightly compacted appears as matter. The simplest form of matter being atoms. However "Atoms are not things". They are just simply models. Atoms really are made of tightly bound up energy. That is the realm in which string theory and super string theory is working. This energy which makes up the universe comes from the Big Bang. After the Big Bang energy condescend and formed into different forms of matter. That energy now makes up everything in the universe from stars to people. Hope that helps...

Answer 3

You received two God answers...those people need to go and get a life, and stay on the subject or get out of this section.

The Universe is mainly empty space with lots and lots of gases floating about in gigantic clouds and collected into huge balls we call stars. Stars are mainly hydrogen gas and helium gas. The gigantic size of stars causes massive pressure on the core of the ball of gas which makes the gas molten and extremely hot. Nuclear fusion begins when the mass of gas reaches a certain point. The hydrogen is fused into helium and that reaction releases heat and radiation across a wide spectrum. Part of that spectrum is visable light which we can see.

Solids tend to coalesce into lumps or balls, then larger lumps and larger balls depending upon the state of the materials (cold and solid, or molten and pliable). Those solids are things you are already familiar with, iron, nickle, silica, rock, copper, ice (frozen water, and some frozen gases), and lots of elements on your standard atomic chart. As the balls of matter become larger and larger they form into asteroids, then possibly moons, and finally into planets. With sufficient metals at their core they gain enhanced gravity and collect other materials as they move through space such as dust particles and gases (if they have enough gravity to hold them).

The Universe is exceedingly vast, beyond your wildest imagination, and therefore beyond the comprehension of most of the God phreaks that insist on sticking their noses into simple science questions. Most astronomers are in agreement that the fartherest we can presently "see" out into space with our most sophisticated optical and radio telescopes is 40 Billion Light Years. Beyond that distance our equipment does not produce any useable information. That is an equipment limitation, not an end to space as some people insist on discussing, as in the end or, or the edge of space.

We are on the Earth, in a "Solar System" with the Sun (our star) at the center of it. Eight planets orbit the Sun along with the various moons that some planets have. Our Solar System is one of 200 Billion or more that make up the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is a disk shaped configuration that is 1.5 Light Years thick and 1500 Light Years wide. Each star within that Galaxy could have from 0 to 10 planets (or more) and their associated moons orbiting around it.

Beyond our Galaxy there are thousands and thousands of other galaxies and each one of them has just billions of stars within it. And, you have probably already guessed, each one of those stars could have a group of planets and moons orbiting around it just as I mentioned above.

This much is known and discussed at length on various sites on the Internet. You may visit any of those sites and gain all kinds of interesting information if you so desire. I suggest that you do a search on the Internet with the key words:

Curious About Astronomy

That should take you to a site developed by Cornell university which contains all of the information you are seeking with regard to the Universe, space, the planets, the stars, the moons, and the galaxies.

I appologize for being so upset at the God phreaks. It just irritates me to no end when someone asks a scientific question expecting to get real information, and people shout out mythology, biblical verse, and anchient tales of the past.

Good luck and good hunting.
Zah

Answer 4

Everything, if you break it down far enough, usually comes down to fields and wave-particle dualities.

Answer 5

Hi, as by my remembered definition it is everything and anything that has and will exist. That sums it up pretty quickly ^^

Answer 6

carbon , hydrogen , nitrogen , actually it is made of everything you heared about during your whole life

Answer 7

God's creations

Answer 8

Matter, energy, and space-time.

Answer 9

The mind of God.

Answer 10

matter