How many million, tetra-tons of matter did God place within our universe?

Question

Or did all of this matter spontaneously self generate?

Rove (below) Delicious, as well as the company...

H.I. (below) In other words, you must take a leap of faith before you can go any further.

Disgustin' Justin (below) I don't know where God came from. Wouldn't it be nice if non-believers could say "I don't know if he exists or not"? Because, they really do not know. They just choose not to believe it is possible.

mckenzie (below) HOW ARE YOU? {hand shake]

Math is not thew answer to all riddles. One cannot say via math how many cups of tea I would like to share with Rove. lol

Answer 1

Did your God spontaneously self-generate?

EDIT: No, I cannot say for sure. Nor can I or anyone else say for sure how the universe began. Or how life began on this planet - another popular topic on this section. Still, the more we discover about life and the universe, the more things that were previously attributed to the work of God are found to have a quite incidental explanation.

However, as fast as we achieve answers, we get questions. Two hundred years ago hardly anyone cared how life began on this planet. One hundred years from now, someone will have figured it out. But in the meantime, a new problem will have arrived as a direct result of research into that very thing, and people will seize upon that new unanswered question as proof of the existence of God.

Hence my belief that there isn't a God. (I don't believe that the question of how the universe began will EVER be scientifically answered, though.)

Answer 2

Even now they know that subatomic particles DO spontaneously appear and disappear from scientific research.

There are conditions, mathematically speaking, through which the matter of the universe could very well have spontaneously generated.

Of course, you and I think there was more to it, though from different angles.

* In the everyday world, energy is always unalterably fixed; the law of energy conservation is a cornerstone of classical physics. But in the quantum microworld, energy can appear and disappear out of nowhere in a spontaneous and unpredictable fashion. (Davies, 1983, 162)
* The uncertainty principle implies that particles can come into existence for short periods of time even when there is not enough energy to create them. In effect, they are created from uncertainties in energy. One could say that they briefly "borrow" the energy required for their creation, and then, a short time later, they pay the "debt" back and disappear again. Since these particles do not have a permanent existence, they are called virtual particles. (Morris, 1990, 24)
* Even though we can't see them, we know that these virtual particles are "really there" in empty space because they leave a detectable trace of their activities. One effect of virtual photons, for example, is to produce a tiny shift in the energy levels of atoms. They also cause an equally tiny change in the magnetic moment of electrons. These minute but significant alterations have been very accurately measured using spectroscopic techniques. (Davies, 1994, 32)
* [Virtual particle pairs] are predicted to have a calculable effect upon the energy levels of atoms. The effect expected is minute - only a change of one part in a billion, but it has been confirmed by experimenters.

In 1953 Willis Lamb measured this excited energy state for a hydrogen atom. This is now called the Lamb shift. The energy difference predicted by the effects of the vacuum on atoms is so small that it is only detectable as a transition at microwave frequencies. The precision of microwave measurements is so great that Lamb was able to measure the shift to five significant figures. He subsequently received the Nobel Prize for his work. No doubt remains that virtual particles are really there. (Barrow & Silk, 1993, 65-66)
* In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy. (Morris, 1990, 25)

Answer 3

It always existed, why would you think the universe was ever empty. All matter is eternally a part of the universe and infinite. A God is unnecessary and nonsense.

Answer 4

check on General Relativity from Albert Einsetan

Answer 5

Self-generate you mean the way God self-generated...maybe everything self-generates just like God?

Answer 6

you are right

your god has evolved from one pile of recycled biomass into another and eventually became a homo sapien with exceptional leadership and storytelling ability

hard to say what did happen, we do have the stars to look up at, they are a window into the past, much further than 6K years

Answer 7

Zero.

Answer 8

Only God has the true answer to that one.It is not part of our salvation.

Answer 9

My dear Chi) there is no God. Hence, he can not place anything! lol

Edit: How is your tea? I like mine.

Edit: Indeed! I like the tea and the company. It works.

Answer 10

A humongous amount.