The rapid expansion of space meant that elementary particles remaining from the grand unification epoch were now distributed very thinly across the universe. As the inflation field settled into its lowest energy state throughout the universe, it generated an enormous repulsive force that led to a rapid expansion of the metric that defines space itself. It was triggered by the separation of the strong and electroweak interactions which ended the grand unification epoch. Although light and objects within spacetime cannot travel faster than the speed of light, in this case it was the metric governing the size and geometry of spacetime itself that changed in scale. Inflationary epoch and the rapid expansion of spaceĪt this point of the very early universe, the metric that defines distance within space suddenly and very rapidly changed in scale, leaving the early universe at least 1078 times its previous volume. The electroweak epoch began 10−36 seconds after the Big Bang, when the temperature of the universe was low enough for the electronuclear force to begin to manifest as two separate interactions, the strong and the electroweak interactions. The grand unification epoch ended with a second phase transition, as the electro-strong interaction in turn separated, and began to manifest as two separate interactions, called the strong and the electroweak interactions. This caused two forces to now exist: gravity, and an electro-strong interaction. The grand unification epoch began with a phase transitions of this kind, when gravitation separated from the universal combined gauge force. This is not apparent in everyday life, because it only happens at far higher temperatures than we usually see in our present universe. Like steam turning to water, the fields which define our universe's fundamental forces and particles also completely change their behaviors and structures when the temperature/energy falls below a certain point. At certain temperatures/energies, water molecules change their behavior and structure, and they will behave completely differently. These phase transitions can be visualized as similar to condensation and freezing phase transitions of ordinary matter. About 3 billion years later, it began slightly speeding up again.ĭuring this epoch, the temperature and average energies within the universe were so high that everyday subatomic particles could not form, and even the four fundamental forces that shape the universe - gravitation, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force - were combined and formed one fundamental force.Īs the universe expanded and cooled, it crossed transition temperatures at which forces separated from each other. After inflation, and for about 9.8 billion years, the expansion was much slower and became slower yet over time (although it never reversed). During inflation, the expansion accelerated.
For this reason it is said that the Big Bang "happened everywhere".ĭistances between objects in space have been increasing at all times since the moment of the Big Bang, and are still increasing (with the exception of gravitationally bound objects such as galaxies and most clusters, once the rate of expansion had greatly slowed).
After that moment, all distances throughout the universe began to increase from zero because the it changed over time, affecting distances between all non-bound objects everywhere. God was the ruler of light, good and order, and gathered in itself all that was good, all that was fair and luminous.Īfter the War of Creation, God created the singularity, and in that singularity, within a moment or so, exploded. All that is known is that before there was light, a terrible war was waged for the domination of the universe between God and the Arcuthas against the Abyssal Gods. What was there before the creation of the universe is and perhaps always will be a mystery to both humanity and most angels.