Physicist : This was an interesting back-and-forth, so the original questions are italicized .
What was the energy at the start of the universe and how did it create matter?
If the question is “how much?” or “where did it come from?”, the answers are unfortunately “a hell of a lot” and “we can only guess”. These are still very open questions. There are lots of clever guesses, but there isn’t much solid, direct data to pick out which guesses are good.
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