Inflation

• The energy released by the breaking of symmetry fueled extremely rapid expansion of space by a factor of 1030.

  • The universe we can see now went from the size of an atom to the size of a marble.

• The breaking symmetry between the forces also resulted in an asymmetry between matter and antimatter.

  • For every billion anti-protons, there were a billion and 1 protons created.
  • Dark matter formed in this period.

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