Ask a Nobel Laureate, John Mather

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Science & Technology

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• Nobel Prize Physics
• Nobel Laureate
• Big Bang
• NASA
• John Mather

[Kaelth66]

How can we do it? All the video responses are from "AskJohnMather" account... What should we do? Can't we post a video response with the question from our own YouTube account? Please answer me soon, my friends and I are really too excited.

[thenobelprize]

Hi there, yes you can post your video response from your own YouTube account. We look forward to your question! Look at the John Mather video and scoll below to record your video response.

[theVegetroniX]

Great idea! It's really nice to see that at least somebody is trying to bring real science closer to the general public. But as always you can expect a big number of questions which are easily answered by grade 8 physics, simply asked from lazy people who don't know anything about real-world science projects.

I also have a question regarding the Big Bang theory and would be happy to get an answer to it. If someone would answer here in textual form, or as an clip on youtube, i would text one soon

[thenobelprize]

Thank you for your response and we really encourage you to take the opportunity to post a video question to John Mather about the Big Bang theory.

[qed100]

@starrockerkitten

It's not so much where the matter came from, but the energy. Matter can emerge in the form of matched particle/antiparticle pairs from regions of space with energy equivalent to the masses of the particles plus enough energy to drive them apart indefinitely against their mutual electrical attraction.

So, whence came the energy? That's an interesting question. If the Universe is at thermal equilibrium on average, then its total energy is zero.

[nameless954]

Erm about the question of where did the matter used for the  big bang, it is almost like asking "what happened before the big bang?" which is also difficult to answer at the current progress of our technology advancement.

[allindianallthetime]

I posted my video on the 27th, but youtube takes so long to download them that it missed the deadline :(..

[starrockerkitten]

Where did the matter come from for the Big Bang?

[starrockerkitten]

Where did the matter come from for the Big Bang? Out of nowhere?

[carusggg]

well , if you accept by mass that it have shape then it can't be infinite ( that means that it doesn't have shape) while when we say "time is infinite" we don't refer to an object but to a concept which mathematicians claim to exist rather than being just a simple tool extended by our mental function of perceiving what we name "time".

[Yousuckatlifeyou]

BUT THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

[78buddy]

This may be a odd question ,but if you accept that time is infinite both forwards and back. Then how is it not possible that mass can be infinitely small. Now of course there is the atom but what makes up those smaller subatomic particles. I am in 11th grade and I asked my Chemistry teacher about that , but he just told me something I already new. That electron are composed of negitive material and protons positive, but what does that really mean?

[tacuata]

what do you suppose was before the big bang?, or do you believe that there is something bigger out there that could have produced the big bang out of nowhere?

[icetray889]

Enter the Dark star-