# the big bang questions but no answers

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-questions-but-no-answers/595825 "2011-09-10T15:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-questions-but-no-answers/595825/21 "2011-09-13T02:14:51Z")

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> [@NNN99](#):
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> If the big bang took place then where did all the matter come from?

The best answer to the first question that I’ve seen recently is [this talk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo) by Lawrence Krauss.

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**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-questions-but-no-answers/595825/22 "2011-09-13T07:41:08Z")

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My own opinion is that asking “where did the matter/energy come from?” isn’t wrong in itself, but recognise that the matter/energy IS here, so any cosmogonical theory must account for it in some manner, even if it is just a feature of theory.

All big bang theory is at it’smost basic is building a general relatvistic model of the universe on a cosmological scale. When we run the time evolution backwards we get to an incredibly dense early universe. Basic big bang theory doesn’t attempt to answer where this ‘mass-energy’ came from, because it’s outside of the scope of the theory. Basic big bang theory just answers the question how a universe with ‘mass-energy profile’ like ours evolves.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-questions-but-no-answers/595825/23 "2011-09-13T18:24:23Z")

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> [@NNN99](#):
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> If the big bang took place then where did all the matter come from?

Nowhere. It just exists.

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> If the universe is continually expanding what made the matter form into spheres?

Mutual gravitational attraction.

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> And, how did the first single celled amoeba come into being?
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> And how could one single cell form into all that we see today?

Blind, random chance.

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