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    8 months ago

    ☝️🤓 um akshually, no atoms came from the big bang since the universe immediately after the big bang ( the planck epoch) was so hot and dense that all the fundamental forces were unified and particles didn’t really exist at all.

    Then after the univers cooled enough (around 10^-32 seconds) the forces separated enough to form a quark-gluon plasma. Then around 10^-6 seconds it became cool enough for free protons and neutrons to form. It wanst until a few minutes into the universe existing that it cooled enough for the first atomic nuclei to form, and then it took hundreds of thousands of years for the universe to cool enough for electrons to be captured and form the first stable atoms.