AUGUSTINIAN ERA (pre-Big Bang)( Quantum Gravity)

13.7 GA Gravitational Singularity

Big Bang - Quark Era ( Quantum Gravity)

0 sec PLANCK EPOCH - four fund. forces (EM, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, gravity) have the same strength

Four fundamental forces unified into a "Fundamental Force"

One Planck Time = 1x10*-43 sec

1x10*-43 sec GRAND UNIFICATION EPOCH

1x10*-36 sec

1x10*-35 sec THE INFLATIONARY EPOCH

1x10*-32 sec THE QUARK LEPTON EPOCH

1x10*-6 sec

1 sec

100 sec The Radiation Era

11999700000 The Matter Era - transparent universe - atoms form

11999500000 Photon decoupling

11 GA Formation of galaxies

10 GA Most chemical elements made

5 GA Formation of solar system