The concept that energy and matter can neither be created nor be destroyed is only true in Newtonian physics, but not in the physics of quantum mechanics and relativity.
Modern physics shows how the Big Bang (and thus the universe) grew from nothing but a random quantum vacuum fluctuation, creating the energy and matter as it expanded - with the balancing negative energy in the gravitational field. This doesn't make sense in Newtonian physics or our Newtonian experience, but it does in the physics of quantum mechanics and relativity.
For more about the Big Bang and its implications, watch the video at the 1st link - "A Universe From Nothing" by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, read an interview with him (at the 2nd link), or get his new book (at the 3rd link). See the 4th link for "The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps." And, see the 5th link for "Quantum scientists make something out of nothing."
"The total energy of the universe is precisely zero, because gravity can have negative energy. The negative energy of gravity balances out the positive energy of matter. Only such a universe can begin from nothing. The laws of physics allow a universe to begin from nothing. You don't need a deity. Quantum fluctuations can produce a universe."
- Lawrence Krauss, physicist
"Quantum mechanical fluctuations can produce the cosmos. If you would just just twist time and space the right way, you might create an entirely new universe. It's not clear you could get into that universe, but you would create it."
- Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute
"The cosmic microwave background radiation is one of the many reasons that we know that the Big Bang actually happened."
- Lawrence Krauss, physicist
The origin of matter n energy isn't known to science.
But keep in mind the Big Bang was not a creation, but an expansion of what already existed.
I'm afraid language as in words cannot answer this question but language as in numbers might one day.
But I'll give it a go.
It depends on what you consider our Universe to be, me I think our Universe is the singularity that is at the centre of a black hole that is itself is in another Universe that is a singularity in another black hole in another Universe, which again is a singularity in another black hole in another universe, so it becomes endless.
So for me its not so much where did the energy come from to create the big bang for our Universe, but where did the energy come from to create the original big bang for the original universe,
The only way I describe what I mean is, if you place two mirrors next to each other in such a way so that you can see the reflections of each mirror, your see an near endless reflection of mirrors and yet there are only two mirrors.
The mass of the earth created the energy needed for this action to take place,13.6 billion years ago,which is the age of the universe.
There is much much more in my link. I have treated this as a serious question,by the way. I am a serious person. Sadly some correspondent's have answered with flippancy ! One despairs !
It was going to be Centrica, but when their prices went up, the "Big Fellah" switched to Eon, saved nearly 120 quid in the process too...
Meanwhile In Meg Griffins bra........
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well some scientist i think it was einstein said energy can't be created or destroyed so if thats the case and there was nothing before the big bang where did it get its energy from, or is our mind not advanced enough to know about that!
