The
First Second of The Universe
By Trevor Jepsen
http://www.bigbangcentral.com/overview_page.html
As many people know, the Big Bang Theory is the preeminent
physics model for the beginning of the universe. According
to this theory, our universe began as a "singularity" which
has been undergoing expansion for about fourteen billion
years. The expansion put forth by this theory is still
thought to be happening today, at this very moment! As the
universe continued to expand post-'big bang' (don't think
explosion; think balloon inflation by an air tank) its
properties changed dramatically from the time when it was
just a cosmos-primoridal soup (a cosmordial soup, if you
will). In fact, the properties of our universe have changed
so dramatically throughout the billions of years that
physicists have divided its history, or 'age' up into
sections that reflect the drastically different natures of
the separate time periods. Some of the most mind-boggling
and interesting events of our universe's long history took
place right after it started expanding, in just the first
second. As you navigate the site, you will learn more about
this fascinating time period, simply click the links below!
continue to the...
Plank
Epoch
Grand Unification Epoch
Inflationary Epoch
Electroweak
Epoch Quark Epoch
Hadron Epoch
[Sources]
http://weheartit.com/entry/group/13027490