One question regarding evolution: What blew up in the Big Bang and where did it come from? Eternal matter?
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The Big Bang \n\nAbout fifty years ago, American astronomers studying the galactic star clusters, stumbled on evidence that the entire Universe is blowing up before our eyes. According to their observations, all the galaxies in the Universe are moving away from us and from one another at very high speeds, and the most distant are receding at the extraordinary speed of hundreds of millions of miles an hour.\n\nFirst there was nothing and it blew up and then there was everything and scientists have calculated that it all happened in 1043 of a second. [The] echo of that explosion can still be heard bouncing around in space. Scientists claim that in the big bang all of the fundamental particles necessary for life were formed. All of the complexity we see around us is the result of this massive explosion.\n\n"The new finding hit the scientific world like a thunderclap." It meant that the idea of an ultimate beginning was no longer merely religious dogma. Science itself now indicated that the universe burst into existence at a particular time in the remote past.\n\nIn 1992 measurements by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and by the Hubble Space Telescope seemed to confirm beyond any reasonable doubt that the Big Bang cosmology is indeed correct. George Smoot, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Principle Investigator of the COBE team which made the discovery, said regarding these new observations, "What we have found is evidence for the birth of the universe . . . It's like looking at God."\n\nWorking backwards, the evidence implies that there was a time when the universe was infinitesimally small. The evidence from general relativity also indicates that it was not merely a case of the matter in the universe being concentrated at a particular location, but that space itself was this tiny. At a sudden instant in time all of the energy and mass in the universe was located at this infinitesimally small point and exploded. The currently observed outbound motion of the galaxies from each other is a continuing effect of that explosion.\n\n"The scientific community is prepared to consider the idea that God created the universe is a more respectable hypothesis today than at any time in the last 100 years," Frederic B. Burnham, science historian, declared.\n\nHowever, some die-hard secularists propose that the universe goes through endless cycles of expansions and collapses. Hence, eternity becomes nothing more than an eternal succession of big bangs followed by big crunches followed by big bangs followed by big crunches over and over again and again forever.\n\nBut this violates the second law of thermodynamics, the law of decay, that implies that the universe is in a process of gradual disintegration - running down, like a wound-up clock. And if it is running down, then there must have been a time when it was wound up. Once the big bang takes place and the universe begins its expansion, entropy starts to increase. From this point on it will never be able to go back to its original state.\n\nWhat's more, the first law of thermodynamics (the conservation of matter) implies that matter cannot just pop into existence or create itself. And therefore, if the universe had a beginning, then something external to the universe must have caused it to come into existence - something, or Someone, transcendent to the natural world.\n\nThe facts clearly indicate that the universe is not eternal, and it cannot originate itself The implication is that the universe began at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy. Science has begun to sound eerily like Genesis 1: "And God said, 'Let there be light"' (1:3).\n\nThe evidence requires that we believe God formed the universe at His command, pointing to the importance of taking God at His word literally - from the beginning both of time and the Bible. Second, there is such a striking parallel between the Hebrews 1
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The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.
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It is explosion of Gamma ray that led to the Big Bang as per the theory which is not fully scientifically proved as yet. Because, now also there are Gamma ray explosions take place in the Space from where stars and other Cosmic bodies are formed. Matter formation is billions of light years after the Big Bang.\n\nFor more, please read the fascinating book by Carl Sagan, 'Cosmos'.
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The scientific theory is that the Universe started as a fluctuation of the vacuum. Such vacuum fluctuations make appear a small amount of energy, for a small time. This phenomenon is responsible for the existence of forces, that hold the Universe and matter together.\n\nNormally the bigger the energy fluctuation, the smaller the time it is in existence.\n\nNot so the Big Bang. That was a HUGE fluctuation. So big that a lot of energy came to appearance in the form of mass, elementary particles. These particles started expanding, before the vacuum could reclaim the energy.\n\nAnd it is still expanding today. 14 billion years later.\n\nThe Big Bang theory itself, doesn't say anything about the *cause* of the explosion. It describes only how the Universe evolved after the explosion took place.\n\nNow for some speculation. Is our Universe the only one? Maybe not. The Big Bang was one big fluctuation, maybe other smaller or bigger, take place all the time.\nBut most of these fluctuations will produce Universes in which conditions are just not suitable for life.\nThe Universe we observe is by necessity one in which the conditions are just right for us to have evolved into Homo Sapiens capable of asking philosophical questions.
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People would take you more seriously if you wrote in proper English.\n\nYou have good thinking skills!  You are asking the right questions; keep it up!\n\nYour questions are dealt with in the field of "cosmology," which is a branch of physics.  Specifically, you are asking questions about the Theory of Relativity and the Big Bang.\n\nAccording to the Theory of Relativity, the structure of space is defined by the gravitational field generated by matter.  According to the Big Bang theory, everything began as an infinitely small, infinitely dense point about 13.7 billion years ago.  This point exploded, and continues to explode, so that matter and energy fly outward.  This is called "the expansion of the universe."\n\nWhen you put relativity together with the Big Bang, that means that space is expanding.  No one knows what space is expanding into, and at present, there is no way of knowing.  The Universe might be expanding into another, larger Universe, or it might be expanding into nothing.  This "nothing" is not a vacuum, it is litteraly nothing.  There would be no matter and no energy, not even gravity to give structure to the nothing.\n\nIs there an end to space?  If the Universe is expanding into nothing, then there is an end.  It is the outer edge of the gravitational waves being emitted by the Universe's matter.  Electromagnetic radiation would probably extend as far as the gravitational waves.  Matter would be lagging far behind the wavefront.\n\nIf the Universe is expanding into another Universe, then there is an end to our Universe; it is at the interface with the other Universe.  What this interface is like, is impossible to know because we have no knowledge of what the other Universe is like.  Suppose it is identical to ours, the same forces--gravity, electromagnatism, strong, and weak--and the same matter--hadrons and leptons. In that case, the interface would probably be a shockwave where matter was compressed by the advance of our Universe, but on either side of the shockwave, space would be continuous.\n\nBut suppose the larger Universe was much different than ours.  Who knows what kind of wild interaction takes place at the boundary?  It might be something mild, as in the case of a similar Universe, or it might be utter annihilation, or anything in betwee.  In this dissimilar Universe scenario, the space of our Universe would have a definite boundary, and on the other side of it would exist a different kind of space.  There is no sensible way to guess at what it might be like.\n\nNow, we have estabilished that if the Universe is expanding into "nothing" that there is a definite end to space.  However, if the Universe is expanding into something (another Universe), then, does space have an end.  Well, that is an unanswerable question because we have no knowledge of the larger universe.  Maybe it originated in a big bang, the way ours did, in which case it also has a definite ending.  But maybe it has always existed and goes on forever.  There is no way to know.\n\nYou are asking very good questions.  You will probably find it very interesting to read about the Theory of Relativity and the Big Bang.  Below are a couple of links and you can find a lot more by searching the Internet.  Your school or public library will have books on the subject, and of course, you can talk to your teachers.\n\nGood luck, and keep asking questions!
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Accually, indepandent,the big bang theroy would work if two things.it had proof and it accually explained were matter came from.what was there before the bang that caused the bang?the universe expanding thing isnt even prooven.But if u read the Bible, it says that God made everything.EVERYTHING. INCLUDING TIME and SPACE.God was and is not bound to time.know y? because He made it.our mind cant comprehend it,and thats no surprise.\nanywho, the big bang theroy does not support the beginning of the universe because the bang was caused by something.\n\nP.S.about evolution--it is allready disprooved by simply the second law of thermodynamics.nothing gets from bad to good, like life forms(ape like to human).it all just gets worse.and it has.
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In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe emerged from a tremendously dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago
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Allow me to confuse you even more. \n\nTo begin with, the universe is not the result of an explosion. An explosion takes place inside something else, like a building, earth's atmosphere, etc.,  There is absolutely not one single shred of evidence that our universe began inside anything else.\n\nIn the first few instants of the universe there was nothing but spacetime and pure energy--no matter (mass) of any kind, including hydrogen. It wasn't until the universe was about 3 minutes old that the first low-mass atomic nuclei began to form, and another 400,000 years would pass before neutral atoms formed. Finally, after that 400,000 year point, the universe had cooled enough that hydrogen could first appear to fill the already existing spacetime volume of the universe.
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This is probably more a philosophical question than scientific one, as it is (currently) impossible to prove.  The answer, then, is a matter of faith.  If you are religious, and believe in an eternal God, then there has always been something, but not the present universe (which, by definition, would have to exists "in" God, as that being is without boundaries and could not be contained).\n\nIf you are not religion-bound, then you can argue either point.  The Big Bang theory only speaks about what happened after the inception of the universe, not what was present before.
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We do not know what came before the Big Bang.  There is no evidence/data yet to give us any direction.  There are many who think that that the Universe is eternal.\n\nThe fact that you ask "Who", implies that you think an entity of some kind created everything.  There is no evidence for that either.  In fact, insistence that there was a divine creator begs the question, "Who created the creator?"\n\nIf you answer that the creator always existed, then next question is, "Why couldn't the universe have existed forever?"\n\nOccam's Razor... which is the simpler theory?  Eternal universe or an eternal creator who created the universe?\n\n--------\n\nTo the Bat_Freak:  Wasn't it the Anti-Monitor and the Spectre?
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your answer is in \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
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current consensus is that it was the result of the big bang. No one knows what caused the big bang but the evidence seems rather conclusive. \n\nOne might say God caused the big bang but no one knows the mechanism that he used.
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The question assumes that the matter was compacted, but before the big bang, there was no universe as we understand it, so the idea of "volume" is somewhat meaningless.  What was the sound that came before silence?\n\nPre-BigBang makes your head hurt doesn't it? It does mine!
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I'll assume you mean the beginning of the universe, not the beginning of the earth. The earth formed about 8 billion years after the universe did, so there was plenty of matter at that point.\n\nYou are wrong in saying that matter cannot come from nothing. There are always 'vacuum fluctuations' where matter and anti-matter are spontaneously forming and disappearing. This is a measured effect and is important in our understanding of electromagnetism.\n\nOn theory (and I want to emphasize that it is a theory) is that the vacuum with *nothing* in it is at a higher energy than one with *something* in it. The difference in energy is quite large and when the vacuum decayed, it allowed the formation of a *lot* of matter and anti-matter. Because of an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter, when thing recombined, there was a small amount of matter left over. This is the matter we see around us.\n\nAnother theory is that there was another 'universe' before ours that experiences a 'Big Crunch' and collapsed. There was then a type of bounce which formed our current universe. So there would have eben all the matter and energy of that previous universe to work from. This theory has recently been given more credence because of a calculation made with quantum loop gravity ( a proposed theory of quantum gravity).
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if it was created by a creator, what then created the creator?\n\nOur physics breaks down inside an Event Horizon so there's really no way of currently knowing as to how it formed.  All we know is we're here, and by random chance.  \n\nCreationism is not a plausible explanation nor is "intelligent design."
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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 theory of evolution (assuming you are lumping this in with the physics of the creation of matter) has the same initiation problem as the Religious one.\n\nWhere did the first matter come from?\nWhere did God come from?\n\nBoth 'sides' will say there has simply been [insert your object here]\n\nPeace out