Reheating

≈ 10⁻³² s · Very Early Universe

Temperature (K): 1e+27
When: ≈ 10⁻³² s
Redshift: —
Era: Very Early Universe
Seconds After Big Bang: 1e-32

What Happened

The inflaton field decays and dumps its energy into a bath of particles. This — not t = 0 — is the actual 'hot' of the hot Big Bang: everything that now exists was created here.

Researchers

Andrei Linde Alexei Starobinsky

Equations

Standard Model Lagrangian Mass–Energy Equivalence

Theories

Cosmic Inflation Big Bang Cosmology

Referenced by

equation

Mass–Energy Equivalence Standard Model Lagrangian

researcher

Alexei Starobinsky Andrei Linde

theory

Big Bang Cosmology Cosmic Inflation

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