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Paul Sutter

Giant 'bubbletrons' shaped the forces of the universe moments after the Big Bang, new study suggests

A transparent blue bubble in space with a bright star shining in the center

The extremely early universe featured the most cataclysmic, transformative and energetic events that ever occurred. Driving these energies was the expansion of the cosmos and the resulting fragmentation of the fundamental forces of nature. 

And in that fragmentation, massive bubbles may have emerged and collided with each other, powering up energies that would put to shame even our most advanced human-made particle accelerators, new research published June 27 on the preprint database arXiv suggests. 

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