ABSTRACT

Currently, many scientists support the big bang theory (Weinberg, 1993; Gribbin, 1998, 2000) as probably giving the best description of how the Universe was formed and subsequently developed.

Between 15 × 109 and 20 × 109 years ago, it is thought that the origin of all matter in the Universe was compressed into a point about the size of a hydrogen nucleus. The Universe began to be formed when this infinitely dense point of matter at a temperature of about 1010 K violently exploded and distributed matter throughout space. Not only was matter created in the form of fundamental sub-atomic particles and energy produced, but time and space also came into existence.