apparently I wasn't clear......?

Question

How did the universe come to be to you? there is a lot of talk about the BIG BANG theory (sorry for the typo in the last one) particles which are matter were here expanded along with energy that helped it (sorry i said explosion in the last one) were did that matter come from since MATTER can't just appear (because scientists proved that) people said God made it (which I believe) but others said, 'where did God come from.' God isn't matter. I think energy was always here but matter isn't energy (as one said matter and enery are two different things.) so what do believers and non-believers think our universe came to be?

Answer 1

in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Answer 2

Well first on a quantum level matter does appear from time to time without cause. All laws of Physics break down if you stretch the parameters far enough.

Second, assuming that you accept that it can't, that would be an argument for it always being here in some form. Not that there was a god. A god would just beg the question where the god came from and also how did he do it if you can't create matter from nothing. Complexity without evidence has almost no chance of being right.

Third there is a newer theory called M Theory that suggests a cause for the Big Bang and what was around before. It suggests that universes are created by a collision in the underlying framework of other universes.

Added: Matter and energy are clearly different forms of the same thing. E=mc2 after all. Here is a paper on using light energy to create matter: http://www.hep.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/e144/nytimes.html

Answer 3

Heres what I think.
Well since we know matter and energy can not be created (again) or destroyed, some sort of superior force such as a God must have initially created them, and also must have initially created all of the laws of physics and such. The universe was probably initially an infinetely small particle of matter and energy with an infinite mass, which began expanding through the laws of physics created by the superior being. Something must have created the laws of physics but whatever did create them does not seem to have the power to override or change them. Eventually through the expansion of the universe our planet was created.

This is where Christians tend to get ancy...
We know initially our atmosphere was made up of water vapor, carbon dioxide and ammonia, which is toxic to most life forms, and the planet was initially too hot to support the current forms of life. The experiments of Miller and Urey show that organic compounds can be made from inorganic compounds in earth's early atmosphere, as amino acids were created in an experiment where a mock atmosphere was shocked with a lightening like force and the result was amino acids which form RNA which form DNA which form organsims and so on. Then evolution took place and here we are talking on yahoo. Well thats what i think about the creation of the universe and the beggining of life.

Answer 4

The Big Bang is a theory of what happened after the universe happened. Matter and energy are interchangeable. The initial energy of the universe cooled down and became matter as the universe expanded.

Remember Einstein's formula E=mc^2? That shows how how much energy it takes to make some matter.

If you are asking where the energy came from that caused the universe, we don't know. However, it is interesting to note that the total sum of energy of the universe seems to be zero when you subtract the gravitational potential of the universe from the total energy of the universe.

"God, the Failed Hypothesis", by Victor Stenger, explains this in more detail.

Answer 5

Actually, many scientist think that matter and energy are just two different forms of the same thing. Matter can be changed to energy(the atom bomb) and there is no reason to believe that under the right conditions energy cannot be transformed into matter. So, my question , If God as energy always existed, why couldn't the universe as energy always have existed?

Answer 6

Well, if matter can not come from somewhere, then how did god create it? If you believe he did, then obviously it can come from nowhere, we just don't know how yet. Matter and energy may be different things, but they do infact convert from one to another (science has proven this.) As a theist you say, i don't know how this happened, god must have done it. Me, I say we don't know how this happened... lets examine it and look for the truth. I want an answer with some evidence, and right now the best answers are string theory, some aspects of the big-bang and quantum study. God has no proof, and is therefore not the logical answer... its simply someones default I don't know. Quick idea... the universe (as in space itself) I believe has always existed and matter is merely transient. Also, if your god does exist (and there is no proof as such) then how do you know it is not matter?

Answer 7

Two branes collided in 9-dimensional space... Essentially the reset switch happened to be triggered on all of the mass and energy that were in the universe before (possibly with some energy exchanges between the two universes that got reset as this happened)

(Oh, and for the record there really is no significant difference between matter and energy, in fact, particles, which are matter, transfer all forms of energy... So energy is matter, though it has no mass. Energy of course can be converted to mass and visa-versa though, which leaves your statement incorrect still even if you meant matter that has mass.)

Answer 8

E=mc^2

Matter and energy are interchangeable.

Hiroshima Nagasaki and the Bikini atoll are constant reminders of this fact.

1st law of thermodynamics says that matter/energy can not be created or destroyed. but you can convert from one to another.

So, we come back to the question I and others posed to you. If you can not create energy from nothing, where did God come from?

If you can create energy from nothing, then why do we have to have God as an intermediate step?

Answer 9

Why could the matter not have been there previously? Keep in mind the Big bang explains this version of the universe and not the previous ones.

Answer 10

I've read up on what cosmologists say (books, videos, websites), and their reasoning, making the effort to learn the vocabulary along the way (have you?) and it makes sense to me.

Even if it didn't, I'd find it rather silly to conclude "Oh, well it must have been a big invisible man, then."

Answer 11

I told you the names of the current theories so you could look them up, as they are rather involved. If energy was always here, then matter can always be here, since matter and energy are interchangable (as we can see in nuclear fusion and pair production - and in your car's gas tank).