Quark Confinement

10⁻⁶ s · Very Early Universe

Temperature (K): 10000000000000
When: 10⁻⁶ s
Redshift: —
Era: Very Early Universe
Seconds After Big Bang: 1e-06

What Happened

The plasma cools enough for quarks to bind into protons and neutrons, and they never come apart again. Every proton in your body dates from this moment.

Researchers

David Gross Murray Gell-Mann Frank Wilczek

Equations

Standard Model Lagrangian

Theories

The Standard Model Quantum Chromodynamics

Referenced by

equation

Standard Model Lagrangian

researcher

David Gross Frank Wilczek Murray Gell-Mann

theory

Quantum Chromodynamics The Standard Model

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