What Is the Significance of the Planck Time

question 28

Multiple Choice

What is the significance of the Planck time?

• A)It is the amount of time required for two protons to fuse to make deuterium.
• B)It is the time at which inflation is thought to have occurred.
• C)Before it, conditions were so extreme that our current understanding of physics is insufficient to predict what might have occurred.
• D)It is the time when the cosmic microwave background was released.

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Control Group

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