Where did the first atom and time come from?

Question

To have a big bang, you have to have material (matter) to go boom. All the matter that was available at the time had to come from somewhere? Also, when and where did time start, before or at the time of the big bang? My thinking is, time is realitive to matter. The first atom represents the beginning of time. If you could, keep it simple. I understood the bang therory well enough to ask the question, that is about it. Thanks

Isn't energy and matter the same, just different states.

Answer 1

think about this: at the moment of the big bang (what we note as time=0), essentially everything was one quantum singularity. All mass was energy (essentially it still is, but it wasn't in the form of atoms or anything, it was just energy which occupied zero space). Don't think about the matter expanding out into space, think about space expanding with the matter. The best example is to think of a baloon with dots drawn on it. As you inflate the balloon, the dots move out away from each other... essentially the space grows as it expands.

So the reason scientists don't know what happened at the exact moment of the big bang is because we cannot, as yet, model the universe in zero space (but we can track it from about 0.00000000001 seconds onward, and are getting closer).

But at that time with the universe in some quantum singularity, all laws of physics as we know them cease to be relevant because everything is one thing. So whatever happened before the big bang, if there was anything, is not something that can ever be known, because whatever was there broke down when it collapsed into that quantum singularity. It's like throwing a bucket of water in the air, I can track where each drop of water goes as it moves and flies out, but if I collect that water back into a bucket, then I can no longer tell what water went where, since it's all back in the same place again. Likewise, we can't know what happened before the big bang, so there's no point in thinking about time before it.

Answer 2

First Atom

Answer 3

I do not know the origin of atoms but there is evidence they exist and can be measured and behave in certain repeatable ways. That distinguishes atoms from gods. The question of where atoms came from is intriguing but they are here so their existence is not in question. Disbelieving in gods does not imply perfect knowledge. I am no better informed than most people. To me, it only implies a willingness to admit there is much to be discovered. To attribute a theoretical event to an entity that cannot be shown to exist seems like a cop-out that might have been good enough for uneducated people in the past but we are less inclined to buy into 'magic' these days. If belief in gods fills some space in people's lives without adversely impacting on others, then let them believe. Just let's not stop looking for answers that comply with or extend the scientific framework by which we bring understanding of the universe. I suspect the question "Who made god" is pointless until god can be shown to exist by the same criteria that prove the existence of matter.

Answer 4

The first primordial Atom which started time and expansion was created by the universes own mass which broke down at the beginning. atoms of matter always existed!

Answer 5

It came from the creation of a Supreme Being.