Wouldn't the big bang theory violate the law of conservation of matter?

Question

Wouldn't the big bang theory violate the law of conservation of matter?

Answer 1

Well that's why we have the theory about dark matter or dark energy. According to measurements on the movement of the universe and galaxy's, there seemed to be too much energy holding these galaxy's together compared to the mass, as well as too much energy related to the expansion of the universe. Dark matter allows us to continue using current physics to describe our universe until we rewrite or modify what we think we know.

Answer 2

Conservation of matter is an integral part of big bang theory.Time, space and all the Matter or energy there can ever be came into existence with the big bang. That much is widely accepted. It is a measurable event with background radiation pervading the universe as a kind of echo or signature. Recent theories proposing possible ways this event could have been initiated are not yet widely accepted and anyway the philosophical or theological question. What initiated the quantum vacuum is the same paradox as what created a creator. Its all a very long time ago so who cares? lets let bozons be bozons. The answer to your question is; No just the opposite with regard to conservation of matter but interestingly there are indications that under certain psi conditions linear causality can work backwards in time, Someone clever once said "there is no such thing as a miracle just gaps in our knowledge".

Answer 3

personally, i don't understand what you are saying, but i know that the theory of the universe is that it started out small than grew bigger, and now is still expanding, and thats dark energy. But i don't think that the bbt would violate those laws...

Answer 4

Nope. The big bang was caused by quantum fluctuations; points in space where conservation of energy was temporarily violated. This event is the direct cause of the structure seen today, after billions upon billions of years.



Its perfectly logical within quantum science, which is sadly a very unintuitive - but correct - aspect of reality. And on a daily basis more and more experiments confirm this fact of reality. Despite what some people might like to say.



Edit: Godless, below, had a much, much more detailed and accurate account of events. Mine is intentionally vastly oversimplified.

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

The matter was all in an extremely condensed form with so much pressure on it that some trigger was pulled causing the "bang" no matter was created nor destroyed in this theory. As for the answer "physics is man made" the same can be said for biology and chemistry, and yet we are still governed by their laws. This is how I understand it but hey, its just a theory.

Answer 7

i dont think we can ever truely know for sure, unless we had time machines & literatlly watched everything that went on .

Answer 8

Big Bang is in fact beginning to fizzle. The recent discovery of the Higgs Bozon (The God Particle) and other “Strange” particles and Fields which have opened doors to all kinds of creation options. Factoring in String theory opening up 11 more dimensions, M-Space and Multi-Verse concepts offering a variety of expansions of Einstein’s initial Unified Field and General Relativity explorations have come up with an almost unfathomable Infinite Parallel Universe hypothesis which leaves all kinds of “slotted holes” for the existence way more than just a “Pop” to explain our existence. The new CERN accelerator is in the next decade going to open up further surprises relating to the physics of creation. (Hey Godless, you forgot my favorite Theoretical Physicist Lisa Randall (throb throb) and the Big guy Brian Greene.

Answer 9

Laws of Physics are man-made laws, and are therefore irrelevant.

Answer 10

This is not really a question for Environment, Conservation. But:



It used to be that science couldn't answer the question about the origin the universe or of the Big Bang, but that didn't mean we should make up an answer (such as a god) and say that it was the cause. Within the last few decades science has discovered some good answers.



There are many well-respected physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Sean M. Carroll, Victor Stenger, Michio Kaku, Alan Guth, Alex Vilenkin, Robert A.J. Matthews, and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, who have created scientific models where the Big Bang and thus the entire universe could arise from nothing but a quantum vacuum fluctuation -- via natural processes.



In relativity, gravity is negative energy, and matter and photons are positive energy. Because negative and positive energy seem to be equal in absolute total value, our observable universe appears balanced to the sum of zero. Our universe could thus have come into existence without violating conservation of mass and energy — with the matter of the universe condensing out of the positive energy as the universe cooled, and gravity created from the negative energy. When energy condenses into matter, equal parts of matter and antimatter are created — which annihilate each other to form energy. However there is a slight imbalance to the process, which results in matter dominating over antimatter.



I know that this doesn't make sense in our Newtonian experience, but it does in the realm of quantum mechanics and relativity. As Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman wrote, "The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as she is — absurd."



For more, watch the video at the 1st link - "A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, read an interview with him (at the 2nd link), or get his book (at the 3rd link).

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