Quote:
Originally Posted by Little Bang
I must make the assumption that gravity did not exist for the next several months or even years
|
The link CragD gave (
wikipedia article “timeline of the big bang”) is very good. It answers your question saying that during the Planck epoch (first
seconds of the universe) gravity was most-likely unified with the other 3 forces of the universe. After the Plank epoch gravity separates from the other forces. By the quark epoch (
seconds), "The fundamental interactions of gravitation, electromagnetism, the strong interaction and the weak interaction have now taken their present forms"
Quote:
Originally Posted by Little Bang
since the entire mass of the universe is contained within this expanding sphere one would think that like a black hole nothing could escape.
|
As far as I know, nothing has escaped the universe.
~modest
