Did you know that your ‘matter’ is billions of years old?
According to most astrophysicists, the building blocks of all the matter found in the universe today—the quarks and electrons of which we are all made—formed in the early ‘moments’ of our universe, as it cooled following the Big Bang. This conclusion is based on scientific research, like that conducted by CERN (the European Council for Nuclear Resarch), which uses some of the world’s most powerful particle accelerators to probe the fundamental structure of the universe.
Another unique feature of the Big Bang is that it didn’t expand through anything. Instead, the evidence suggests that the Big Bang created and stretched space itself.
Explore these links to learn more about the beginning of our universe:
