[richhhhhard]

Well, I reread my responses, and I feel like I am kind of being a jerk, so sorry. I am not trying to be rude, I just argue with people about this a lot so I tend to get kind of ridiculous.

I am not saying you are wrong, I just do not understand how it makes sense that energy could exist without matter, or the other way around. It seems like there would have to be a non-zero number for every value in that equation unless E and m were BOTH 0. It seems to me that they are dependent on each-other. But then again, if energy somehow condensed into or transformed into matter than it seems like it would just be a more basic form of matter than the proton or even the quark.

If so, then did the energy that was involved in the big bang, do you believe that it always was, or did it originate from something else? It just seems like no matter how far you trace the different forms of "matter" you will always come to a point where it existed in a form that just was.