If matter can't be created nor destroyed-then how did the matter thay became our universe come to be?

Question

Don't just say God did it- I want real theories(preferably from real scientists and sources please)

Answer 1

matter CAN be created and it CAN be destroyed.

The Sun "destroys" 4 and a quarter tonnes of mass every second, in order to produce 385,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts of power.

E = m c^2

New particles can be created by concentrating sufficient energy in a tiny enough volume.  That is the purpose of accelerators (atom smashers).

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Having said that, we still do not know where the energy came from that formed our universe.  We have different ideas as to how it could be possible, without inventing new physics.  But these can't be verified (yet).

The Big Bang theory simply takes for granted that the universe began with an unbounded energy density.  What the theory does is explain what happens to such a universe, when it expands, including how matter is "created" out of energy.

Actually, since matter is simply a very concentrated form of energy, it was not created.  Big Bangers say that it "condensed" from the energy as temperature cooled (because of expansion).

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Some theories (or, at least ideas, since they are not yet at the point where they can be verified): look up:

M-theory

String theory

quantum fluctuations

multiverse (with colliding branes)

   a 'brane' is a sub-space of a higher-dimension space; for example, a membrane (sheet) is a two-dimensional object in a 3-dimension space.

Answer 2

Matter can be transformed into energy and vice-versa, but that just generalizes the question -- where did the energy come from?

The real answer is, of course, that nobody knows, at least not yet. There are some theories, and they're all weird.  One theory is that the Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation. Vacuum fluctuations allow energy to suddenly appear "out of nowhere" as long as they disappear quickly enough -- but while they are here they can have real interactions.

Another point is that current observations indicate that the universe is expanding faster and faster all the time -- the expansion is accelerating. This means that energy is being added, and this energy is called Dark Energy at the moment. No one is quite sure what it is, either.

Answer 3

God is the ONLY answer. Sorry.

Answer 4

Einstein proved that law wrong in theory. The atomic bomb put the theory into practice. we now know that matter can be created from energy, and energy can be created from matter. Many heavy elements have only been known to be artificially created (atomic numbers 111 and upwards). The law of conservation of energy is therefor conveniantely now called: the law of conservation of matter and energy.

as for the origin of everything. the big bang is the most current mainstream theory on the origins of everything. there are however a lot of disputed theories on the origins of the big bang. (string theory and M-theory, they have not been universally accepted though)

the big bang is a tricky thing you see, we know it happened, because there is loads of evidence to support it (universes expansion, cosmic background radiation patterns, the fact that there is nothing to see 13,8 billion years out, etc) but we cant quite see back to the moment of the big bang, and as you try to aproach it or describe it, the laws of physics stop making sense.

id go ito further detail, but google any of those subjects, and youll find texts better than anything i could write here.

Answer 5

As stated by others destruction of matter isn't all that difficult.  Creating it seems to be the trick.  I've asked this question before and the best I could get is that it is only created very soon after the big bang when things are very high energy and interesting.   The ONLY time Matter and antimatter gets created in nearly equal quantities in those first seconds.  Then they promptly annihilate each other  back to energy.  All that is left is the small  amount of matter inherent in the term "nearly equal".  Everything in the universe is made of that small remainder.  In the current universe there doesn't seem to be any matter being created.  Its only done in that brief moment under unimaginable conditions. I may be totally off base here, but this is the best scenario I've been able to come up with.  I would love to be corrected by someone familiar with this subject.  

Answer 6

It did not come to be.  It always was.

Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed.  Everything that exists has always existed.

Answer 7

matter has always existed, in some form.

matter comes from space. when space concentrates itself, it eventually becomes more and more solid. space is a form of matter, and matter is a form of space (ether).

Answer 8

it changed state from gas to everything else...