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The period immediately after the Big Bang, typically viewed at around one Planck time, whereby all forces were unified.
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Planck epoch — In physical cosmology, the Planck epoch (or Planck era), named after Max Planck, is the earliest period of time in the history of the universe, from zero to approximately 10 43 seconds (one Planck time), during which quantum effects of gravity… … Wikipedia
Planck units — are units of measurement named after the German physicist Max Planck, who first proposed them in 1899. They are an example of natural units, i.e. units of measurement designed so that certain fundamental physical constants are normalized to 1. In … Wikipedia
Planck scale — In particle physics and physical cosmology, the Planck scale is an energy scale around 1.22 × 1028 eV (which corresponds by the mass–energy equivalence to the Planck mass 2.17645 × 10−8 kg) at which quantum effects of gravity become strong. At… … Wikipedia
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Grand unification epoch — In physical cosmology, assuming that nature is described by a Grand unification theory, the grand unification epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe following the Planck epoch, in which the temperature of the universe was… … Wikipedia
Quantum gravity epoch — In physical cosmology, the quantum gravity epoch is the first era in the history of the Universe according to the standard Big Bang cosmology. In this era, the effects of quantum gravity such as fluctuating topology of space are commonplace. The… … Wikipedia
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Cosmological decade — A cosmological decade ( CÐ ) is a division of the lifetime of the cosmos. The divisions are logarithmic in size, on base 10. Each successive cosmological decade represents a ten fold increase in the total age of the universe.[1] As expressed in… … Wikipedia
