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Originally Posted by dcl
"We will call the period from 10^-43 second to 10^-35 second after the Big Bang the GUT, or Grand Unification Theory, era."
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Being able to name something doesn't mean we know much about it. Please note that the GUT era is completely inaccessible to current particle accelerators, and though several GUTs have been proposed, there is little or no data to distinguish which is supportable.
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Originally Posted by dcl
...ran the movie backward as far as knowledge would allow....
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We don't yet have "knowledge" of the state of the universe during the GUT era. Inflation (around 10
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