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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Basic timeline of the Big Bang

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA / WMAP Science Team

This post is a basic timeline of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is estimated to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago. There are 8 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Big Bang occured and inflation begins (0 seconds)
• Gravity separated from the fundamental forces (10^-43 seconds)
• Strong force separated from the fundamental forces (10^-36 seconds)
• Inflation stopped (10^-33 seconds)
• Electromagnetism and the weak force separated (10^-12 seconds)
• Quarks and gluons formed protons and neutrons (10^-6 seconds)
• Protons and neutrons formed nuclei (a few minutes)
• Nuclei and electrons formed atoms (379,000 years)