Somewhere I heard that matter was made from nothingness?
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In the words of Einstein, matter is simply a different manifestation of energy.\n\n\nAs for energy, from everything we know about thermodynamics, it cannot be created or destroyed. Energy didn't come from anywhere and can't go anywhere. It simply IS.\n\nWhy? Well, we're not sure yet.
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No where... It's all made up...
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No.\n\nSome things can never be made up.
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Technically it would probably be wrong to say the original matter in the universe was smaller than a grain of sand. The big band is the start of the universe, according to scientists. It's the start of the 4 dimensions(3 dimensions of space and one dimension of time). It's the beginning of all matter and energy. What was there before the big bang? Nothing(if you don't believe in God). So what was it that exploded in the big bang? It couldn't have been the grain of sand sized speck of matter because all matter was a result or bi-product of the big bang. Whatever exploded had to be there before the explosion but matter didn't exist before the explosion. It was a bi-product of the explosion. So, what exploded? Nothing exploded. That, in essense, is what the big bang theory says.........nothing exploded and in the process everything was created. Everything was created out of nothing.\n  You might say "but don't christians believe everything was created out of nothing". Yes. I (as a christian) believe that God created the whole universe out of nothing. He literally spoke it into existence. God said "let there be light and there was light" or so it says in Genesis chapter 1. You say "then what's the difference"? The difference is that the atheists is saying that everything came from nothing and no one since he doesn't believe in a supreme being. Christians believe that everything came from nothing but NOT from no one. There was a God there to make it happen.\n  I guess another problem I have with the big bang is that you have unbelievable order and design coming from an explosion.\nExplode a grenade sometime and when all of the metal pieces fall back to the ground, see it you have a rolex watch lying there.
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Democritus, a Greek philosopher from around 400 BCE, gets the credit for coming up with the idea that matter is made of fundamental, indivisible particles, or atoms.  The other side argued that there was no such thing as an atom, and that matter was made of nebulous nonspecific "stuff".
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One of the most fundemental Laws of Physics is that matter and energy can be neither created nor destroyed. The question I pose to science as to the existence of GOD is that if this Law is true, then where did all the matter and energy ORIGINALLY come from?
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D)supernovae. Every single material in the universe except helium came from supernovae
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Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space, so that would be people, cars, gases, anything really except for things that are not tangible like thoughts.
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Matter is anything that occupies space. Matter is not alive so therefore cannot die.
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We dont know, but to the best of our knowledge, matter is composed of atoms composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons.  Protons and neutrons are composed of hadrons which are composed of quarks (electrons are quarks).\n\nQuarks may be composed of strings, which are 1 dimensional particles, but we cant really say.  Thats our best theory.\n\nSome people believe strings are the absolute smallest things out there.  In fact, at the 'size' of strings, distance and size dosent really make sense, so if they exist they are proably as small as anything else.  That is not to say that they are not composed of more fundamental things, whatever they might be.  It is to say that size dosent make much sense beyond strings, so they can be called the smallest.\n\nEnjoy.
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God created the matter
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Particle theory of matter suggests that matter is made of tiny pieces with much space. One support for the idea is when they learned to shoot   particles, and most of them went right through, very few hit a nucleus. They were using a sheet of gold.
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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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nothing what's the antimatter with you! seriously though if you mean antimatter, it's a form of matter in which most of it's properties are reversed.
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I don't think matter does come from nothing. First of all, we don't know what matter is, but I don't think we have any good reason to expect that matter/energy is fundemental.  I think the entire idea of anything coming from nothing is nonsensical. \n\nMax Tegmark speculates that nature is fundmentally based on mathematics. This seems to make a great deal of sense. Physicists have always been amazed at the degree that mathematical truths have been reflected in the physics we observe.  Why should there be this incredible isomorphism between systems of mathematics and the nature we observe. It would seem the simplest explanation might just be that nature is mathematics, where mathematics can be thought of as necessary truths about logical systems.\n\nI think part of the reason people have this picture of something coming from nothing is that they have what I consider a false picture of the nature of time.  Time is not something apart from the universe. Indeed Einstein argued that time is not distinct from space at all but rather there is a unified idea called Space-Time. \nSo rather than picturing the universe as a dynamic entity changing in time, perhaps one should look at the universe as a static unchanging entity which we describe by space-time. With this picture the idea of something coming from nothing is revealed as meaningless, and there is just this static unchanging reality.\n\nMan tends to talk about systems in terms of layers of understanding. Our picture of the universe is like this, with our understanding progressing to lower and lower layers. At first we just understood reality in terms of objects ( people, tables, trees etc. ) Then science revealed these objecs in terms of atoms. Then physicists described the atoms in terms of electrons protons and neutrons, Then came quarks. Then came string theory which is still speculative but at least one physicist has speculated that String Theory can most easily be explained as a layer directly over the set of mathematical logical axioms.\n\nIf we look at the universe just in terms of our matter/energy space/time layer (how we usually picture it). We know that The first law of thermodynamics states that the sum total of mass/energy is constant. However what many people do not know is that gravitational potential energy is considered to be negative. This allows the mass and energy we observe to increase with time as long as there is an equal amount of gravitational potential energy formed as well. In fact the total amount of mass energy may well sum up to zero. So essentially the mass/energy we observe was able to form because the rapid expansion produced a huge amount of negative gravitational potential energy to balance it.\n\nIf reality is based ( the lowest conceptual layer) on mathematics then the issue of why reality exists goes away, because then reality simply reduces to the class of what is necessarily true.
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There's the "Theory of Nothing".
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there was no matter. our human mind cant comprehend the fact that God MADE matter AND TIME . God is not bound to time like we r. For to Him a thousand years in heaven is one day here.and a thousand years here is 1 day in heaven.doesnt make any sence unless u know the truth of God. not the public , deceptive view the world gives us.