What were the two first elements of the beginning of the universe?

Answer 1

Dark Energy as Aether

There has been a lot of discussion about dark energy and dark matter as concepts to explain certain anomalies in physics such as between mass and gravity. Some scientists are starting to see dark energy as a new reference to the concept of the aether.

One such article was published in Physics Letters B this year. As the abstract states, "In the generalized Einstein-aether theories by taking a special form of the Lagrangian density of aether field, the possibility of Einstein-aether theory as an alternative to dark energy model is discussed in detail, that is, taking a special aether field as a dark energy candidate."

Earlier, New Scientist (www.newscientist.com) reported on research by a team at the University of Oxford seeking to link dark energy and the aether to resolve a problem with gravity and mass.Starkman and colleagues Tom Zlosnik and Pedro Ferreira of the University of Oxford are now reincarnating the ether in a new form to solve the puzzle of dark matter, the mysterious substance that was proposed to explain why galaxies seem to contain much more mass than can be accounted for by visible matter. They posit an ether that is a field, rather than a substance, and which pervades space-time.This is not the first time that physicists have suggested modifying gravity to do away with this unseen dark matter. The idea was originally proposed by Mordehai Milgrom while at Princeton University in the 1980s. He suggested that the inverse-square law of gravity only applies where the acceleration caused by the field is above a certain threshold, say a0. Below that value, the field dissipates more slowly, explaining the observed extra gravity. "It wasn't really a theory, it was a guess," says cosmologist Sean Carroll at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

Then in 2004 this idea of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) was reconciled with general relativity by Jacob Bekenstein at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel (New Scientist, 22 January 2005, p 10), making MOND a genuine contender in the eyes of some physicists...Now Starkman's team has reproduced Bekenstein's results using just one field - the new ether. Even more tantalisingly, the calculations reveal a close relationship between the threshold acceleration a0 - which depends on the ether - and the rate at which the universe's expansion is accelerating. Astronomers have attributed this acceleration to something called dark energy, so in a sense the ether is related to this entity. That they have found this connection is a truly profound thing, says Bekenstein. The team is now investigating how the ether might cause the universe's expansion to speed up.Andreas Albrecht, a cosmologist at the University of Calfornia, Davis, believes that this ether model is worth investigating further. "We've hit some really profound problems with cosmology Ð with dark matter and dark energy," he says. "That tells us we have to rethink fundamental physics and try something new."

Answer 2

Hydrogen was the only element created by the big bang.

However, it was so hot in the early period, that nuclear fusion could occur and helium was produced - along with a few other minor elements - lithium is one. This happened in the first three seconds.

After that - the Universe had expanded and cooled sufficiently that fusion could no longer be sustained.

Answer 3

energy and matter

Another Answer:

Energy and matter are two forms of the same thing. Remember e = mc2? So, one could say that the universe is just energy, or just matter.

Answer 4

It's comes down to the Chinese Yin and Yang. Everything has an opposite. Is it possible to have black without white? True without false? Up without down? Yes without no? Good without Evil? One cannot exist without the other.

In computer programming, we learn that a variable cannot truly have a Null (Nothing) value. Even when you set a variable to Null, there's still something in there--Null is an impossibility.

So it is impossible to have Nothing, without Everything. The first two elements of the universe were Yin/Yang...Nothing/Everything.

Answer 5

This is very hard to explain. It was nothing. But how did it look like? Nothing, that's obvious. But everything has a colour. It can have no shape, but it must have a colour. People think that, it was transparent, but you MUST look at something, to know that it's transparent. The same with time. How long did the universe last at non-existing before it. There was no time.

Answer 6

According to most models of the Big Bang, the very early universe was a hot, dense, quark-gluon plasma; elements didn't form until it had expanded and cooled. The first nuclei formed were hydrogen, followed by deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) and helium; these later captured electrons to form atoms.

Answer 7

Hydrogen and helium, the two most common elements.

Some scientists theorize that trace amounts of lithium, the next heaviest element, may also have been formed in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.

Answer 8

The answer to this question depends on which theory you believe.

If you follow the Big Bang theory, immediately after the Big Bang, the only existent element was hydrogen, which nuclear fusion would have transformed into helium. I don't know anything else afterwards that moment, which lasted less that fraction of a millisecond after the B.B.

If you follow the intelligent design theory, all existing elements were present since the primary tenet of this theory is that the universe was created by an omnipotent, omniscient God.

Variations of both of these theories exist and usually fall somewhere between the two.

Answer 9

The Big Bang did not create any elements. It took almost two billion years for the universe to cool down enough so the first two elements were created. For your purpose, the best answer is hydrogen and helium.

Answer 10

According to today's best understanding of the conditions at the moment of the

big bang and for some time after it, there were no elements, no atoms, and no

particles from which atoms could form.