How did all the material in the Universe arrive here in the first place?
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There is no way of knowing that. Maybe one day we'll have enough information to figure it out. Maybe God created it, if he/she/it exists. Maybe it has simply always been there. Logically, there must be something which has simply always existed.\n\nIn response to the person who answered after me - Something must have simply always been. No matter what it is, you can ask where it came from. And when you have an answer for that, you must question where THAT (the source of the first thing) came from. I'd say it's pretty illogical for that to continue infinitely, so there must be something that came from nothing. I never said that something had to be the matter. Just that there must be something which has simply always been. Maybe the source of all the matter is something that has always been. Those who believe in God would say that he is the source of that matter, and that he has simply always existed. Maybe it is the source of the source of the source of the source of the source (you get the idea) of the matter that has always existed. Logic suggests that eventually you would have to reach the beginning of all existence, and whatever it is that started everything.
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Absolutely.\n\nIt is now thought (and even more radio telescope survey evidence on this has just come in) that at the very beginning of things (the Big Bang) there was nothing but energy. As the Universe expanded and cooled, elementary particles were formed from that energy, and some time later, things cooled enough for atoms to form and stay together. Since it takes force to push protons together (to form nuclei of the higher atomic number atoms), and the force wasn't available, only hydrogen (and a very small amount of helium and perhaps an even smaller amount of lithium -- the simplest atoms) resulted.\n\nLots of hydrogen, distributed in a sort of clumpy manner, will eventually collapse into stars. Large stars burn through their available fuel relatively quickly, all the while forcing together protons into more complex atoms such as carbon and oxygen and silicon, and so on. When these large stars go nova, they spray a good part of themselves into interstellar space where the material is incorporated into newly forming stars or collected into clouds around them. As those clouds collapse into planets (which must be very common as we have now seen some hundreds of them around stars in the local area in our galaxy (ie, within a few hundred light years)), the non-hydrogen material in them is actually star stuff. Probably not really dust particles in most cases, but...\n\nAnd that's how it was. Fascinating stuff.
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It is a theory that the universe started from a "big bang."  This is considered by scientists as the earliest recorded history of the universe.  It is believed that the entire universe was so dense it was possible that it could have been the size of a planet or smaller.  All that density was too much and it exploded.  Everything back then was hydrogen.  The hydrogen formed into stars.  The stars created other elements because of the neclear reactions breaking up the hydrogen and connecting it together.  This led to planets.  Unfortionatly I would say there is too much info to share everything.  Try reading :\n"A Short History of the Universe"\nI did before I went into seminary.
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The universe is constructed from a multitude of various materials. It is dynamic in form and shape due to a multitude of various processes and interactions between these materials. To the human, however, in his need to establish his place and purpose in the universe, the most important material is biological and the most important process is evolution, far it is only here that the human can learn to understand himself, an understanding that is vital to his survival.\n\nWise men, psychologists, philosophers and theologians have surmised and conjectured about the human over the centuries, and still do, but the truth about the human may be found only through factual knowledge. That factual knowledge lies in a process called evolution. The human is what evolution made him. \n\n\nfor more details log on to  http://www.onelife.com/evolve/manev.html
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thats a very scary question. there was no earth there was no space, there was no universe. WHAT WAS THERE?????? scary to think
271980
The Earth is in the Solar system, the solar system is in the Galaxy and the galaxy is in the Universe AKA outer space. The answer to your question is not known, some say the Universe is the end of that line, stuff is made of atoms, atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electons, protons, neutrons and electrons are made of quarks, which are made of (I think) gluons, huons and mesons. I think that their is another universe, say a ten or eleven dimensional universe, that holds infinitely more four dimesional universes, like ours, this is part of string theory.
2022
God created the universe. Notice how the word universe is Latin for "single spoken sentence", which is how he created it. God spoke everything into existance e/accept man, who he created with his own hand. If you dissagree, my username is my e-mail.
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I have no clue!! God IS REAL and He DID make the universe. Please explain to me how everything just all of a sudden boomed and everything came to be. I DONT THINK SO! GOD MADE THE WUNIVERSE!!!!!!!!
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It is believed that that since the universe evolved out on 'nothing'.....so every matter has an anti-matter..(since the sum total of all matter and anti-matter is zero in universe)...so chances are there are is another earth (anti-matter of where we are)....and hence the all the people and other things are in pairs......BUT, all these are theories...there are no scientific validations of these.
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God created the matter
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There is conjecture that the universe began with a big bang, out of nothing. If matter formed, then anti-matter also must have formed at the same time to have the various laws of physics as we know them hold good. Some scientist postulate that the big mishap in Siberia in 1906 could have happened  because of the passing of a small quantity of anti-matter. Remember, for anti-matter, we could be as dangerous as is is to us. \n\nI think anti-matter has been created in small quantities in labs, and yes you are right, it could be harnessed to meet with our energy requirements.
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God created all, the earth, the stars the planets, the galaxies... everything was created by God
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it started with chemicals ,followed by ,very simple unicellular things,they worked there way up to amoebas,and it was only a couple of million years to get to bacteria and stuf like coral after that ,then it becomes complicated,\n\nhumans came from out of space i think,they were put here and primitive beings that were already here were maybe genetically improved by those who came from the stars.\n\nas to how humans come ,that is another question
167669
Jehovah God created the universe and everything in it.
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You have to think back and ask the correct questions to answer this one. The theory of the "Big Bang" is incorrect. First Question: "Where did the matter come from for the "Big Bang"? Answer: "From somewhere else". Keep asking the question of "Where did something come from"? and you have to arrive at the fact that at some point, there was absolutely nothing.\n\nThis is a very hard concept to understand and think about because you always want to think in terms of a "void" if you try to think of nothing, but you have to realize that "a void" is "something" so you have to think of "nothing", "nada", "zip".\n\nThen you can arrive to the conclusion that...\n\n"It is the propensity for NOTHING to create SOMETHING".\n\nThe very first thing nothing would create is energy, something that would keep manifesting itself and propegate. That is what you would call "Life". Some refer it to "God" but it still all the same thing and exists everywhere in the universe.\n\nThis "Energy" would eventually become so extreme that it would create the "void", then the energy would transform into matter and gravity and begin to fill the void.\n\nThese three forces are the basis for all the laws of our current "Universe" and have dictated it's behavior ever since.\n\nThe universe if far older then the 13 billion years old we now can detect, it is constantly changing, expanding, and filling the ever greater void it creates as the energy, matter and gravity continues to be created.\n\nTo answer your question, you are sitting on it, it does not sit on anything.\n\nWhen your coporal body can no longer contain the energy that created you, as in all "living" things, your energy will again become part of this universe, no matter how trivial that energy may be, it is still a part of the entire energy that was and is still being created at this time.
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The earth came into existence by some as yet undetermined process, the most likely of which was a "big bang" whereby all existing planets and solar systems began to form into their current transitory states. During that process, animal life began to form on the earth, by yet another unknown process. The earth is currently in a state of transition that will eventually result in its return to the previous unknown condition that resulted in the "big bang."\n\n\n\nNow send me $5 or I'll put a curse on you.
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Yes it all started with dark matter and energy that were under enormous pressure in a molecule and then the big bang was sparked because of this pressure building up. However what was before this and more importantly why it happened no one will ever know. I prefer to follow the scientific explanation of the origins of the universe as opposed to religious ones because it makes more sense and there is proof.