TY - BOOK ID - 77941165 TI - Understanding the universe PY - 2004 SN - 1281877034 9786611877033 9812565485 9789812565488 9781281877031 9789812387035 981238703X 981238703X 9812387056 PB - New Jersey World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Particles (Nuclear physics) KW - Cosmology KW - Elementary particles (Physics) KW - High energy physics KW - Nuclear particles KW - Nucleons KW - Nuclear physics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77941165 AB - The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and neutrons of atoms did not yet exist, but rather were replaced by a swirling maelstrom of energy, matter and antimatter. Exotic quarks and leptons flickered briefly into existence, before merging back into the energy sea. ER -