.well at first there were matter and antimatter. ok than the big bang came but my question is: WERE DID THE MATTER CAME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE ? HOW DID IT FORM FROM NOTHING????? I think its weird with all this theories but one not even one explaines were the matter came from to form the big bang.
2007-10-02 09:25:47 · 10 answers · asked by Vulfy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You have hit the edge of known science and knowable science.
The theory says that at one point in time, 13.7 billion years ago, all the matter in the entire Universe was collected at one point no larger than an atom. Then for so some strange reason it exploded into the universe we know and live in today.
We have no idea why it exploded, what caused it to explode, or what (if anything) existed before the explosion. We have no way of knowing that because there isn't anything that exists from prior to the big bang. If it did then it is 13.7 light years away from us and moving further out each day.
Matter and Antimatter are not related to the big bang, but if antimatter exists somewhere in the universe today (we haven't found any in nature) then the only place it could have been would have been inside of that cosmic egg. This leads me to believe that antimatter doesn't exist in nature since if antimatter contacts matter it will destroy itself in an explosion on the scale of a nuclear bomb.
2007-10-02 09:33:12 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well--join the club. No scientist knows where the s"stuff" of the universe came from either.
There's speculation--perhaps the universe is cyclic and this is the current cycle--with a "Biig Crunch" when the matter of the universe eventually fallse back into a single "point-mass" (billions or trillions of years from now).
But--there's a MAJOR problem with any scientific explanation of what was "before" the Big Bang. Briefly, the formation of the "point-mass" (it wasn't even matter at that moment" destroyed any atoms, etc. that might have existed prior to the Big Bang--and ANY "information" that matter/energy might have contained.
Science depends on information--observed data. But, at least according to current theory, its physically impossible for any such data to have survived the Big Bang--so, we CAN'T actually know anything about it.
This is a question that's outside the boundaries of what science can answer. Personal opinion--since I believe in God, I think He created the mass that became the Big Bang and then our universe. Whether there was some process before the Big Bang involved?---He knows. No one else does.
2007-10-02 10:27:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible that the total energy content of the Universe is zero---the positive energy of all the matter and energy is balanced by (negative) gravitational potential energy. Then there might be little or no energy needed to start the Big Bang.
It is true (as stated by others) that in the first femptosecond all the "stuff" was very different from the physics we are used to today, and the distinction between matter and energy was moot. Later on, once baryons formed, there were almost equal numbers of matter and anti-matter baryons. It is something of a mystery why our piece of the Universe has the baryon density that it does, but this may simply be chance---the baryon density has to be something, and after early inflation the baryon proper density is bound to be uniform within our event horizon.
The important thing to realize about the Big Bang is that our understanding does not extend back to time zero. Under our current understanding of things, time zero was infinitely dense and infinitely hot---an impossibility.
2007-10-02 11:14:48 · answer #3 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your a little off.
first there was energy, no matter, and it was all compressed into a tiny little spec called the primevil atom. it exploded and all of the energy cooled to a few billion degrees and formed matter.
and it depends what theory you believe. if you believe the generic big bang theory then there was no time before the big bang, and it was just always there.
but there are several theories that try to explain the big bang, such as m-theory.
m-theory says that all throughout our unvierse, in others, and outside of all of them are these super small 11 dimensional membranes. and when 2 of them collide a massive amount of energy is created, and thats what the big bang was.
but of course that begs the question, where did the 11th dimensional membranes come from.
some would say god, but that also begs the question, where did he come from, because if were using him to explain science then science has to apply to him. so he had to have an origin. the universe, or multiverse if there is one, is a very mysterious place.
2007-10-02 09:53:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You got it slightly wrong. There was NO matter in the beginning. ALL matter formed the first few seconds AFTER the big bang. Also you need to consider that the forces of nature we take for granted today, that constitute how all matter behaves, were not quite in effect right after the big bang. They "condensed" out afterwards. So the universe as we now it was not in existance as we can comprehend it because we are all so used to our three spatial dimensions interlocked with that fourth temporal dimension. There was no "before" the big bang as there was no time... And no time no space... Sorry but it just gets wierder...
2007-10-02 09:36:35 · answer #5 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're not the only one confused....
Nobody can answer this question because nobody knows what gravity is. What I mean to say is that there are 5 fundamental forces in physics and only 4 of them can be expressed in terms of each other. For example, electricity and magnetism are easily interchangable. Guess which force is not? Einstein spent most of his life trying to unite gravity with the 4 other forces. He was unsucessful. At the instant the universe formed, all the 5 forces were united into one force. Until gravity can be united with the 4 other forces, nobody can calculate what was going on at the instant the universe appeared. Nobody knows what was happening before, either.
2007-10-02 09:37:17 · answer #6 · answered by Roger S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Dr. Stephen Hawking says we've gone back to 39 milliseconds after the big bang- since he wrote this some 20 years ago, its possible we've gone back a little bit farther.
Both the Bible, and the Pope (After consulting with Dr. Hawking) agree that before this bang, there was simply God, and his Son, and the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1)
2007-10-02 10:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah. And while you're pondering that, think about this:
Where did the energy to create the big bang come from?
What was the ignition source?
Frankly, I don't have enough faith to believe all that crap. It just makes more sense to believe that God made it.
2007-10-02 09:33:57 · answer #8 · answered by Gee Wye 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Hi. Supposedly from the conversion of energy into matter. (They are inter-changeable.)
2007-10-02 09:30:48 · answer #9 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blackholes hold the answers you seek.the alpha and omega of birth and death of all in the universe.unimaginable heat,light ,time space GRAVITY.
2007-10-02 09:58:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋