Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
The Big Bang
Primordial Era
Quark-Gluon Plasma Epoch
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Hadron 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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