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Before asking question #1 you should provide a definition as to what you interpret matter to be. If you view it as the only physical entity of the universe, then you need to know the fundamental properties of this substance.

To ask a riddle, it is presumed that the questioner already has an answer that he wants us to detect from a set of clues in the riddle. You are asking questions, not posing riddles.

I know an answer to the cosmic riddle; I doubt if it is the same as yours. Would the young care to compare his notes with the old in PM or open forum?

If one is unable to perceive that existence did not require a beginning or cause, then there will be no possible answer available to satisfy the "Cause and Effect" of existence. There is however a cause and effect for the manifestation of the universe. Since I don't accept the premise of paradoxes, existence is eternal and we need only be concerned with the cause of the universe and not the cause of existence. It's about the same answer derived by man when he created GOD and said he was an eternal being.

To elaborate on question 1:
The fundamental substance of the universe has only 2 properties: Motion and self bonding. The bonding property is at maximum when the motion property of matter is totally uniform motion. This property is at its weakest when motion of the matter is randomized into chaotic wave motions (vibrations). The total quantity of all motion types (uniform or random) must equate to the quantity of motion prior to the "Big Bang" event. This is "Absolute Motion". The universe is expanding because the collision that caused the Big Bang, brought the linear uniform motion to a rapid conversion from uniform motion to random wave vibrations of interference throughout this substance. The primary wavelength of this random wave motion has lengthened ever since the BB event. (microwave background radiation)

Space is not a void but is the fundamental substance of the universe in a state of near total randomized motion. The proper name is "Ether" or as some have called it, "Aether".
Light is a transverse wave of this unstructured matter.

Ans 2.1: In reality, nothing is absorbed or emitted; only the motion of a system is altered as to the distribution of its "Absolute Motion". When an object has its random motion converted to uniform motion from a wave of the ether, the object condenses its matter further. This is the same as saying the wave function reduces to a shorter wavelength and thus to a higher energy state.

If you comprehend this, then you can move on to know that charge is this same process of either converting uniform motion of ether matter to randomized motion (repel) or converting randomized motion of ether matter to uniform motion. (attract) Of course gravity, strong force, and weak force, are also types of the latter process.



If you pay for an education, be sure it is to learn the math, terminology, and methods of science; Don't totally accept the academic interpretation of the gauge (mathematical) theories.