Another day and slightly closer to finding why Whatlington and Vinehall Street are where they are today and how their past has formed the present.
Supersymmetry Breaking
The is first period was when the last two forces, electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force were separated and the subThe universe starts to cool from its original heat of 1,000 trillion, trillion degrees Centigrade to only 10 trillion degrees Centigrade; this cooling allows those quarks - remember those particles we met last time - to combine and form protons and neutrons. A proton is known as a subatomic positively charged particle of one elementary charge, the number of protons in an atom is shown in its atomic number on those old posters of the Periodic Table.
Back to the science, a neutron is the subatomic hadron particle that has no electrical charge with a mass slightly larger than a proton.
The Quark Epoch (between 10–12 seconds and 10–6 seconds after BBE) had too high a temperature to allow the quarks to form a hadron. The hadron is a composite particle made up of quarks held together by, what is known in the particle physics community as, a strong force.
During the Hadron Epoch (Between 10–6 seconds and 1 second after BBE) the temperature of the plasma-gluon cloud, remember that one, cooled to 10 billion degrees Centigrade and this allowed the quarks to cool and form hadrons. Neutrons slowly become protons and our first element, Helium, starts to form a nuclei. But the temperature is still too hot for atoms to form.
Next time - we fast forward our trip to the formation of the third rock from the sun.
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