A brief history of the universe

How did it all begin? Actually, we have no clue.

Theories suggest that all matter and energy were condensed in a hot dense point.

This is called a gravitational singulary.

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Planck Epoch

The Big Bang occurs.

The smallest meaningful time is Planck Time at 10-43s

We cannot look back further beyond this point in time.

10-43s

Grand Unification Epoch

Gravity seperates from the other three fundamentals forces.

The electromagnetic force, the strong and weak nuclear force are still combined.

They are called electronuclear force or GUT (Grand Unified Theory).

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GUT

10-36s

Electroweak Epoch

The strong nuclear force seperates form the electroweak force.

This may have caused the so called inflation.

From 10-33s to 10-32s the universe expanded by a factor of 1026.

10-12s

Quark Epoch

The four fundamental forces are distinct.

Baryogenesis takes place which leads to Baryon asymmetry.

Normally matter and antimatter anihilate each other.

It is not yet understod, why matter prevail anit-matter