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Old 29-March-2008, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Fraser View Post
In the first few moments of the Universe, enormous amounts of both
matter and antimatter were created, and then moments later combined
and annihilated generating the energy that...
Why "moments later"? Why not immediately, from the very start?
Why would the matter and antimatter hang out for a time before
annihilating each other?

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