The Universe
Time
Primordial Era
Stelliferous Era
The Big Bang
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
Hadron Epoch
Lepton Epoch
Photon Epoch
Recombination
Dark Ages
Pre-Stellar Epoch
Population III Epoch
Reionisation Epoch
Peak Star-Formation Epoch
Declining Star-Formation Epoch
Red-Dwarf Dominance Epoch
The Universe
Time
Primordial Era
Stelliferous Era
The Big Bang
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
Hadron Epoch
Lepton Epoch
Photon Epoch
Recombination
Dark Ages
Pre-Stellar Epoch
Population III Epoch
Reionisation Epoch
Peak Star-Formation Epoch
Declining Star-Formation Epoch
Red-Dwarf Dominance Epoch
The Universe
Time
Primordial Era
Stelliferous Era
The Big Bang
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
Hadron Epoch
Lepton Epoch
Photon Epoch
Recombination
Dark Ages
Pre-Stellar Epoch
Population III Epoch
Reionisation Epoch
Peak Star-Formation Epoch
Declining Star-Formation Epoch
Red-Dwarf Dominance Epoch

Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch

All elementary particles appear. Quarks, leptons, bosons, antimatter. Too hot for particles to bind. Pure particle soup.

Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch

At first, just after the Big Bang, there were no particles. Everything was pure energy in a hot, dense soup. As the universe cooled slightly, energy turned into matter. The first 'players' showed up. In that early moment, many elementary particles existed; only a few mattered for later atom formation.

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