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Yesterday, scientists discovered how matter formed before the big bang.?
So, does that blow a huge hole in religion? Why or why not? No freak outs please, intelligent opinions only.
I said no freak outs. I read an article right on Yahoo about this and wonder what you think about it.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
What scientists discovered is that certain mesons have an asymmetrical decay process. Basically, they produce more matter when they decay than anti-matter. This helps explain why we have a universe made up of matter rather than a universe where all of the matter and anti-matter has annihilated each other.
No, it doesn't blow a hole in religion. But it does further confirm that the big bang theory correctly explains how the universe evolved since its inception.
Whether god said "let there be light," or the universe started on its own is a matter for conjecture, not science.
- John de WittLv 71 decade ago
Yesterday, it was announced that an experiment showed a huge 1% difference in the amount of matter and antimatter formed under particular circumstances. That may (or may not) smooth out one of the problems in the Big Bang that have been bothering physicists. It does not, however, predate the Big Bang. Also, it's the Big Bang, not the old steady-state theory, that's compatible with major religions. Cosmogony is still the business of metaphysics and religion, not science, and it's likely to stay that way for some time to come. If you have a working understanding of both, you'll realize that you can't use either science or religion as a club to beat the other; they simply offer study in different areas.
- 1 decade ago
Many point to the big bang as the origin of everything, but the big bang does not address the issue of origin. The big bang is the process of expansion and is still visibly in progress. (Many times those who refer to the big bang are speaking of the very early portion.)
The evidence found so far does not indicate the origin of the components of the universe, nor does the evidence tell us anything of events occurring before the big bang. Rather than repeatedly reciting this qualifying sentence, the big bang is often simply referred to (incorrectly) as the beginning or "creation" of the universe. Television documentaries do not bother to make the distinction.
Nobody knows how it originated. All that we can do it to look at what is happening to the universe now and it is expanding all the time. This suggests that it is expanding from a central point. We also know that atoms have lots of space in them in fact everything about us is mostly space so it can be compressed. This leads to the theory that it all started at a central point which so so compressed that it was what is called a singularity and it exploded from there
Quantum physicists suggest that quantum fluctuations in vacuum is capable of producing energy and thus matter..
check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PL%E2%80%A6
The net quantity of energy in the Universe is observed to be zero, so there's no problem relating to the origin of matter: the positive energy of the matter (and other constituents) is balanced by negative gravitational potential energy.
We can extrapolate back in time, using physics that we understand, to a point a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. We cannot go further back, because our understanding of physics fails. In particular, quantum gravity effects become important, and there is no precise theory of quantum gravity (yet).
However, the Big Bang theory does NOT claim that the universe began that way. In fact, it is completely silent about how or why the initial energy existed.
So basically: The big Bang says that a sphere or atum can condense extremely flexible nucleus infrastructure. As it is somehow livid, it just needs a shake, and then like a bottle, it spreads. Now that's how the Universe of our universes were formed. But the small atum nobody knows how it was created.
So you see, you can say how it popped, but you can't say how it formed.
Otherwise you believe in God or in a upper-force, which actually could make sense in some way
- 1 decade ago
I find this very interesting, although I admit I haven't actually read about it! I would assume that this, scientifically, does blow holes in religion. Although people who have a faith in religion will never stop believing because science tells them otherwise, no matter how hard the proof is.
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- ?Lv 44 years ago
no longer something particularly. i'm a huge fan of Stephen Hawkings. it may of course be the biggest black hollow that we could ever discover data of. it particularly is why we equipped the collider. looking that a prior universe existed could particularly go away open the ever-repetitive question.... how long has this been occurring? and additionally... whilst did all of it start up?
- eriLv 71 decade ago
I hadn't heard about that. Have you got a citation? Where did you read this? Since we can't see outside our universe, and we can't observe as far back as the big bang, I find it doubtful there was an actual discovery of any sort - maybe just some ideas someone published.
- unitedcats2004Lv 71 decade ago
Religion has been proved wrong any number of times since the Renaissance, one more nail in Genesis's coffin isn't going to make a whit of difference. There's always going to be people who are uncomfortable living in a complex world where there are no moral absolutes, and there will always be people perfectly happy to supply them with pre-packaged moral absolutes. Science and logic have nothing to do with it.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I'm afraid you are misinformed.