Which of the Following Statements Best Explains What We Mean

question 59

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best explains what we mean when we say that the electroweak and strong forces "froze out" at 10- 38 second after the Big Bang?

• A)Following this time, neither the strong nor electroweak forces were ever important in the universe again.
• B)These forces are important only at temperatures below the freezing point of water-a temperature that the universe reached at an age of about at 10- 38 second.
• C)Freezing out was a term coined by particle physicists who think that the Big Bang theory is really cool.
• D)These two forces first became distinct at this time.

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Beta

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Standard Deviation

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