Posted: Sep 14, 2011 10:22 am
Ihavenofingerprints wrote::popcorn: Looking forward to answers. I'm not very sure, but in regards to (1)... I was reading this today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_o ... anck_epoch (maybe this is what he was referring too?)
Yes - the first three "epochs" described there are the times described in the excerpt that I reproduced in my post. The idea is that initially (during an unimaginably short period of time) there was only one kind of interaction, and that fragmented, in three steps, into the four interactions we know today, over the course of a trillionth of a second, as the average interaction energy decreased.