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Thank you for your reply to my query. Your reply made me think of a couple of follow-on questions. 1) If it was not the mass of the universe that was converted to energy in the big bang explosion, where did that energy come from to generate such an explosion? and 2) If the universe...

Most of the discussions at this forum are way beyond my level of understanding, but I thought this might be a good place to start. My background is just a college level knowledge of physics, and a hobbyist's interest in astronomy. My question involves the mass of the universe, and a...