Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA / WMAP Science Team
This post is a basic timeline of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is estimated to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago. There are 8 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- Big Bang occurred and inflation begins (0 seconds)
- Gravity separated from the fundamental forces (10^-43 seconds)
- Strong force separated from the fundamental forces (10^-36 seconds)
- Inflation stopped (10^-33 seconds)
- Electromagnetism and the weak force separated (10^-12 seconds)
- Quarks and gluons formed protons and neutrons (10^-6 seconds)
- Protons and neutrons formed nuclei (a few minutes)
- Nuclei and electrons formed atoms (379,000 years)
