Thread: If matter cant be created or destroyed, where did all this stuff come from?

Originally Posted by Mario92

Crap, this thread is old...

As it has probably been stated above, matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed, but they can be converted back and forth. In nuclear weapons and such, a small amount of matter is converted to pure energy. Scientists at CERN and other facilities are also trying to get matter out of energy...not sure if they've succeeded yet or not.

I feel pathetic that instead of listening to my science professor and hearing about that, Dan Brown told me about it.