Could not the whole universe have come from exactly NOTHING?
If equal amounts of positive and negative matter were to come into being at the same time then there is no limit to the total amount of either one of them is there.
On a sub atomic level, a single particle can "decay" into several others provided a number of rules are followed, some of which include the following.
1 The total mass of all of the particles must remain the same as that of the original particle
2 Someting about strangeness having to remain the same also
3 Well actually I can't remember all the others. College physics was a long way back and I was a Chemistry major anyway.
Anyway, the gist of it is that an electron can "decay" into a proton, an anti-proton and another electron. In essense, the two new particles have just sprung into being from nothing.
Imagine this on an enormous scale and you have a VERY big bang.
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