• Question: Where did all the matter that formed the big bang come from?

    Asked by xx_AstroBoy_xx to Simon, Julia, Delma, Andrew, Alex on 10 Dec 2015.
    • Photo: Delma Childers

      Delma Childers answered on 10 Dec 2015:

      That’s a really great question! And the fun part is, nobody knows. 😀

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      Andrew Winnard answered on 10 Dec 2015:

      We really do not know 🙂 its one of the things we still need to figure out! Asking great questions like this is the first step of becoming a scientist, the next part is trying to figure out how to answer these great questions!

    • Photo: Alexander Finch

      Alexander Finch answered on 11 Dec 2015:

      Yup – no one knows. It’s like it just was always there!

      The matter at the start was very different to the matter we know now. There weren’t any atoms at the beginning – we think it was much simpler things that came together to make matter and everything we see in the Universe.

      Another thing that is puzzling scientists these days is: where is the anti-matter!? According to our understanding of physics, there should be equal amounts of matter and antimatter. But, everywhere we look, all we see is matter – no antimatter at all. It’s very odd…

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