I was listening to Brian Cox on Intelligence Squared and he somewhat casually mentioned the general acceptance among physicists of a possibly "infinitely long" period of cold inflation predating the big bang and of the "sudden" stop to this inflation as the source of energy for the big bang...
Phinds is right, atoms themselves do make up all the matter that surrounds you but they themselves are made of simpler building blocks. I'm going to take a crack at the basic physics that he refers to so you can get an answer where you posted.
In the general sense, it's not wrong to say that...