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Cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the structure and evolution of the Universe
on a large scale.
The Universe contains all matter, energy, space, and time.
Dark Energy
For the universe to be accelerating apart, there must be some
outward force that is stronger than gravity than wants to bring
everything closer together.
This outward push is caused by some unknown energy that we
currently refer to as dark energy.
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At the beginning right after the big bang, the universe went through a
huge rate of expansion called inflation.
At 10-32 seconds after the big bang the universe expanded outward
about 1050 times larger.
At this time the universe was about the size of a soccer ball.
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At the time inflation ended, and all four forces were separate from
each other.
At this time the only matter were the individual building blocks of
protons and neutrons: quarks and antiquarks. And other subatomic
particles: neutrinos, antineutrinos, electrons, and positrons.
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There is a theory that in the first second after the big bang there was
a breaking of the symmetry, leading to more matter being created
than antimatter.
These sound wave traveled through the early plasma in the universe
and also became stretched as the universe expanded.