If matter cannot be created or destroyed where does it come from?

Answer 1

I think all the answers above miss the point of the question.

All the matter in the universe was created in the Big Bang, give or take the mass-energy transformations referred to. But basically hydrogen atoms were first formed in absolutely humongous numbers (preceded only by all the various sub-atomic particles required, which I wouldn't describe as everyday "matter"). Stars such as the Sun "burns" hydrogen in a nuclear fusion reaction to produce Helium - the next heavier atom. Further nuclear reactions within the stars have produced all the heavier elements up to Uranium (beyond which elements are thought to be purely man-made).

Then all this matter consisting of elemental atoms have been distributed throughout the cosmos by innumerable supernovae explosions. Some elements have also been created in more than one step by radioactive decay of heavier elements.

So all the matter on Earth, and making up the Earth, condensed under the influence of gravity out of diffuse gas clouds - i.e. "stardust".
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Answer 2

All matter has been with us since time began in every conceivable form. Newly created elements and compounds are derived from available matter somewhere.
Matter still cannot be created nor destroyed, even in atomic reactions, it's still being converted to other forms.

Answer 3

nicely, i'm non secular and that i ought to take some subject concerns right here. interior the Bible it for sure says GOD WALKED with Adam interior the backyard. WALKED God assigned an Angel to guard the tree of existence with a flaming sword, a weapon, a gadget, a gadget. in case you have problems with this then you definately've problems with LITERAL interpretation of the Bible. in any different case you're analyzing between the strains and that's like enjoying God and you go with to alter into some prophet. I merely study what the checklist says and IT SAYS in no doubtful words an Angel guarded the tree with a flaming sword. It additionally pronounced God WALKED interior the backyard with Adam. Now ALL count is created from potential. we are all little digital protons and electrons bonded mutually by potential of a few mysterious technique all of us understand little approximately. learn organic and organic Chemistry for a mutually as and study Isomers. no person completely understand the way the comparable chemical formulation BONDs in a various way yet you may have assorted isomers of the comparable right chemical constituants. C7H16 could have many isomers or bonding factors. So that's feasible God is conscious a thank you to bond into cloth and unbond into rudimentary sub-atomic areas and nonetheless be God, that's a neat trick. How does a spirt supply a breath from his lungs to make Adam out of airborne dirt and dust It did no longer say GOD transferred the Holy Spirt all the way down to the airborne dirt and dust to make Adam, it pronounced, God breathed by means of his nostrils. that's a definate materialistic state of being. God breathes, has nostrils, lungs and ft to stroll. At this element you need to verify is the Bible LITERAL or FIGuRATIVE. Is it a metaphor or a documentation.

Answer 4

Matter and energy are interchangeable according to Einstein's famous equation E = MC2. There could be a universe with no matter, just pure energy, and I guess that is the answer of what was there before the big bang.

Answer 5

That's a simplistic description of one of the conservation laws of physics. Matter and energy are conserved, but you can convert one to the other.

If you're asking where it all came from in the first place, that's a first class unanswered question. The standard model of cosmology can't extrapolate farther than a big bang singularity. Even if some version of M-brane theory turns out to be correct and useful, and the big bang is the result of the intersection of many-dimensional membranes, that just pushes the question back to where did these branes come from.

Answer 6

Matter and energy are interchangeable. I believe energy and space are also interchangeable. Where all the matter, energy and space came from to begin with is a matter of religious belief. We know they exist, but we can never prove how they came to exist.

In my own Fractal Foam Model of Universes, matter consists of randomly occurring variations in the mean size of bubbles in the ether foam.

Answer 7

It all came into existence after the first 10-43 second when matter began to form in the big bang.

Answer 8

The law of conservation of mass/matter, also known as law of mass/matter conservation (or the Lomonosov-Lavoisier law), states that the mass of a closed system of substances will remain constant, regardless of the processes acting inside the system. An equivalent statement is that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, although it may change form. This implies that for any chemical process in a closed system, the mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the products. This may also imply that all matter in the observed physical universe is the same age. The law of mass/matter conservation may be considered as an approximate physical law that holds only in non-relativistic processes. It may be considered as non-relativistic in the sense that for matter (which is neither created nor destroyed), time itself does not apply.

In chemistry, as long as no nuclear reactions take place, a special form of the law of conservation of mass also holds in regard to the conservation of the mass (and number of atoms) of each chemical element. In most basic chemical reactions and equations, no atoms of any element may be created or destroyed. They need to come out exactly as found in the reactant side of an equation, with only a different location in regard to their new chemical formula, as may be found on the product side of an equation.
The law of conservation of mass was first clearly formulated by Antoine Lavoisier in 1789, who is often for this reason (see below) referred to as the father of modern chemistry. However, Mikhail Lomonosov (1748) had previously expressed similar ideas and proved them in experiments. Historically, the conservation of mass and weight was kept obscure for millennia by the buoyant effect of the Earth's atmosphere on quantities of gases, an effect not understood until the vacuum pump first allowed the effective weighing of gases using scales. Once understood, conservation of mass was of key importance in changing alchemy to modern chemistry. When scientists realized that substances never disappeared from measurement with the scales (once buoyancy had been accounted for), they could for the first time embark on quantitative studies of the transformations of substances. This in turn led to ideas of chemical elements, as well as the idea that all chemical processes and transformations (including both fire and metabolism) are simple reactions between invariant amounts/weights of these elements.

Law of conservation of mass holds when relativistic processes are considered.

Answer 9

But matter can be created and destroyed.
Nuclear reactors destroy mater (converting it to energy) and particle accelerators can convert energy into matter.

The quantity that seems to be conserved is stress-energy, which includes matter and all kinds of energy. Some kinds of energy may be negative (gravitational potential energy, for example). The total energy of the Universe may be zero, meaning that creation of matter really just involves a separation of positive and negative energy.

Answer 10

It is transferred/transformed through energy.
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