I have been pretty shocked by some of the comment I have received lately on my educational physics blogs. I guess some people are calling me an "Atheist" for believing in the big bang and anti-matter. Hey kiddos, wanna know a secret? The big bang can be PROVEN and so can anti-matter. Pulsars are made of nothing more than anti-matter streams and we can prove this with modern technology. I'm actually kind of shocked by how some of you do not know this O-O It is not anti-religious to understand these things. Stephen Hawking is probably the worlds leading physicist and he is very religious. The universe has not always existed; it is estimated to be about 13.5 billion years old. We have built giant particle accelerators that confirm the big bang theory, on top of that. This is just common knowledge now. Just like people had to accept that the earth is not flat, you have to understand that the universe was created at some time. Cosmic microwave background radiation still exists today. Turn on your T.V. and look at the static, this is proof of the radiation that is still around after the big bang. Your T.V. is picking it up. If you stepped into a physics class right now and tried to argue with that, they would pull out ye olde F! stamp and slap you in the forehead a few times for being a weirdo o-o jeez… gawd… ppl arguing with me >.> make me rant…. Meh… *mumbles* meh…

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Anyhow… Keep in mind that the big bang theory does not and cannot explain how the universe was created, but rather how conditions were at the point of expansion and creation. With instruments we have today, we have discovered that the universe is in fact expanding at a constant rate. Galaxies are getting further and further away from us every day. Galaxies are pushed by what we call “dark energy”. It is believed that about 75% of the known universe is made up of this. “Dark matter”, however, is a force that pulls our galaxies close. It is the anti dark-energy. I will go further into the explanation of dark forces in a later blog though… The universe was once an infinitely hot and dense particle that was as small as the smallest particle. Infinitely small, it contained all of the energy that exists in our universe today. After this point exploded, the energy was released and the laws of our universe began to take shape. A quark soup with some leptons is all that existed at this point. *note* quarks are fundamental particles that are the ingredients in what we call “Hadrons” which are very commonly protons and neutrons (the sub-atomic particles that make up the nuclei of atoms). After millions of years of expanding and cooling, the laws of physics caused these particles to bond and make basic Hydrogen and Helium atoms (this process is further explained in the anti-matter blog). So on and so forth… The universe was created yaaaaaay don’t argue this time -.-‘ or if you do, please bring enough evidence to condemn the entire scientific community. Plz k thx. N00bz…. Garsh :T