Does science agree that?

Question

hydrogen was (or is) the initial element in the appearance of matter in the Cosmos? Has anybody postulated on how or why ('God doesn't throw dice' - Einstein) the first hydrogen atom (or its components) appeared out of 'nothingness' preceding the Big Bang, of couirse? I understand the religious implications of this question, but observe that 'everything' He did, seems to eventually prove logical and with a scientific basis.

Answer 1

Ordinary hydrogen, H, was the fist elemental atom to be created when the singularity began to cool, sub atomic particles came first. Einstein meant that there is order in the way the universe evolves, he used the term, "God does not throw dice," as a sop to the Pope. Nobody knows where it all came from before the big bang.

Answer 2

> Does science agree that hydrogen was (or is) the initial element in the appearance of matter in the Cosmos?

Yes. It's the very simplest element, having but one proton and one electron. It's very "easy" to form, and to this day, 90% of the matter (excluding "dark matter") in the universe consists of hydrogen.

> Has anybody postulated on how or why ('God doesn't throw dice' - Einstein) the first hydrogen atom (or its components) appeared out of 'nothingness' preceding the Big Bang,

Yes. There's a great deal of uncertainty, but there are lots of hypotheses. For one thing, it is known that a vacuum does not represent the lowest possible energy state, and therefore it's more or less inevitable that matter/energy will spontaneously appear in a vacuum. BTW, you're taking Einstein's quote very much out of context--it had nothing to do with matter appearing at the Big Bang; it was a response to the notion that events are explained statistically rather than deterministically. Please read your science history.

> observe that 'everything' He did, seems to eventually prove logical and with a scientific basis.

Not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean that everything we observe in nature turns out eventually to be logical and have a scientific basis? I agree there is some truth to that. It's entirely a separate question whether this order in nature arises from the personal will of a supernatural being. My own feeling is that it would be surprising if nature were NOT well ordered, regardless of whether God exists or not.