Forever and For Always, Matter

Where did matter come from?
Can we make stuff from nothing?
Can we destroy matter?
Will matter make the Universe collapse?

Antoine Lavoisier, a French chemist, created a law that still stands today.  He said..."matter is neither created nor destroyed. ... the total amount of mass and energy in the universe is constant." 

Lavoisier was a brilliant chemist that lived during the French Revolution.  He insisted that science was very good for governments and economies.  His passionate pleas for increased science caused radical rebels to throw him in jail.  He was executed by the guillotine. In 1794, Paris lost one of the greatest minds in history.

This theory of matter is still used today.  Because matter is constant in the Universe it will not be the cause of its collapse.

So where does matter come from?  There are two camps: a) God created matter, or b) the Big Bang created matter.  Both ideas, spiritual and scientific have not been proven for sure.  Some people go on to ask, "who created God?"

These questions create something called an "infinite loop".  We may never find the answer to these questions....

This leaves the last question:  Can men make new matter?  Yes.

Using a Large Hadron Collider, scientists try to force new protons into smaller atoms to try a create larger atoms.  

Scientists hope to make "universal" discoveries by shooting protons at nearly the speed of light toward each other and forcing them to crash together.  The hope is that the smallest particles will be exposed and scientists will find the key to the Big Bang = origin of our universe. 

Watch this!  Engineers and scientists working together can create great experiments with matter.  I know!  Mind blowing!