Quark Epoch

10⁻¹² – 10⁻⁶ s · Very Early Universe

Temperature (K): 200000000000000
When: 10⁻¹² – 10⁻⁶ s
Redshift: —
Era: Very Early Universe
Seconds After Big Bang: 1e-09

What Happened

A quark–gluon plasma too hot for the strong force to hold anything together. Briefly recreated at RHIC and the LHC, which makes this the earliest era ever reproduced in a laboratory.

Researchers

David Gross Murray Gell-Mann Frank Wilczek

Equations

Standard Model Lagrangian Fermi–Dirac Distribution

Theories

Quantum Chromodynamics

Referenced by

equation

Fermi–Dirac Distribution Standard Model Lagrangian

researcher

David Gross Frank Wilczek Murray Gell-Mann

theory

Quantum Chromodynamics

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