If you believe in god, you're an idiot...

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Originally Posted by Boggwin Bramblefoot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let me ask you this. Let us assume that there was a big bang (talk about having faith!). Where did all that matter come from? Did it just pop into being? It wasn't created at all? It just came into existence? (once again, talk about faith!)

Here's the first thing you need to understand about matter. It's really just energy. Specifically, discreet particles called 'photons'.Since you can neither create nor destroy energy, photons have always been. It is believed that all energy in the universe was concentrated in an unimaginably tiny, unimaginably dense, yet stable, 'ball' of energy at one time. *Something* disrupted that stasis and photons began to spatially separate and decay into other arrangements that had much less electrical attraction and thus made larger, more stable particles, like quarks, protons and so on. This happened at a fantastically rapid rate, along the lines of 1.0 x 10^-15 (.000000000000001) seconds. What happened in that fraction of a second is still a mystery, as the mathematical equations don't work the way they do for all time beyond that first bit.
One thing is for certain, all matter (energy) has always existed, it's just been arranged differently in the past.