Atheists: Why didn't the anti-matter theoretically produced during the big bang negate/destroy the matter the

Question

galaxy is currently made of?

Answer 1

You really think a lot of us, don't you?

Answer 2

Wait a minute , I’ll just check my diary , I am sure I made some notes about this the day it happened .


Seriously though, I will try a guess at this.
There is an experiment where you can bombard an empty space , a vacuum , with gamma rays . Then apparently you get pairs of electrons and positrons. Switch off the gamma ray and the electrons and positrons then re-combine to produce the nothing ( again ).

Now , if these electrons and positrons were moving away from each other so fast , that they were too far away to re-combine when the gamma rays were switched off .... you would have both types of matter , anti-matter and matter. I might suggest that we can see the matter in the universe, but have not learnt how to detect the anti-matter yet.

Answer 3

You could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the big bang theory is 100% wrong and atheists still would not believe in God. In fact, if the science community as a whole unanimously agreed that there wasn't a single theory left to explore how the universe was created and the human race had to chose between believing in a Creator or a giant question mark, atheists would chose to simply accept that they do not know and that would not change anything as far as their belief that God does not exist.

Answer 4

Considering matter as we know it (stars, planets, etc.) only make up 0.4% of the energy content of the universe, there is a lot of stuff out there the nature of which we have any real understanding of. The standard answer given for your question by physicists is that slightly more matter formed than antimatter - although, if what we consider "anti-matter" was the greater of the two? Would we call that matter instead - with electrons having a positive charge and their antiparticle having a negative?

This is one of the great unanswered questions in modern physics.

Answer 5

The actual events in the early stages of the universe are still vague, despite all the information we have so far. The existence of antimatter has been confirmed so we at least must acknowledge that. It appears that, early in the universe, antimatter and matter did annihilate each other however, there must have been an imbalance in the original amounts of each. Obviously, our local region of the universe is made of matter. It seems then that there was more matter than antimatter present in the beginning. Why this was so is still unclear. Perhaps, other regions exist where antimatter was present in greater amounts, leaving vast regions of antimatter.

Answer 6

There is more than a little bit of intellectual dishonesty going on here. Normally it's "What? Are you a complete idiot? Don't you know anything about science? Get an education."

Now when, for once, the creationist appears to have the upper hand, it's, "What? Do you think we are all scientists on here? Ask a physicist!"

CHRIST (below)
No fallacy here. There might have been if he had made a statement and then appended "therefore God exists."

Answer 7

It's strange that you support the big bang theory, but dispute the findings on antimatter.

Truth is that it did (almost) annihilate the matter - there was just a slight imbalance.

Try tossing a coin 100 times. I bet you don't get 50 heads and 50 tails!

Answer 8

I get a big bang out of all the Holies forever asking about big bangs . Does religion give you big bangs on the brain ?
Of the hundreds of millions of interesting subjects , lets put big bangs at the end . Enough already .

Answer 9

How should I know? Perhaps at the moment of the Big Bang the baryonic number for the entire universe was not equal to zero.

Answer 10

My guess is, it seperated and went in a different direction, creating an Anti-Universe, which is the exact opposite of ours; a universe of kind and loving people who respect and help each other, and there is no political corruption.

Answer 11

The current hypothesis is that a lot of it did. However, there was a teeny, tiny bit more matter formed than antimatter, so the 0.000001% of matter survived all the antimatter/matter interactions, and went on to form the matter we see in the universe today.