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Something must be wrong[edit]

I read most of this essay but I am puzzled: how could it be that the age of the universe is "approximately" 13.75 ± 0.11 billion years but there is a book that talks about the "First Three minutes"?
Duh?
Comments welcome.
Maurice Carbonaro (talk) 07:39, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Because what must have happened during those first three minutes can be deduced and analyzed, regardless of how far back those first three minutes were. DS (talk) 13:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can be 100 years old, but we can speak about the first 3 minutes of your creation. emijrp (talk) 13:35, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I thought about emijrp (talk) last comment for a long time now (almost six months). Well this is obvioulsy pure speculation but maybe there is some kind of connection between quantum biochemistry and... physics of the Big Bang...? Maybe the synchronicity phenomenon is involved somehow? Who knows... :O/ M aurice Carbonaro 08:14, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The three minute point is when the temperature gets cold enough (+/- 3000 K), for something other than radiant energy to come into being and existWFPM (talk) 05:18, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chapters summary[edit]

Hi, I added a summary of each chapter. If there's something you don't like, let me know here please, then we can improve it together. Herbmuell (talk) 05:21, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Hello everybody who is interested in this WP article.

My post was reverted by FreeKnowledgeCreator, see here. He gives the reason "rm good faith addition per WP:PROPORTION - details such as the number of chapters and their names are generally completely irrelevant". FreeKnowledgeCreator, what is rm? WP:PROPORTION is on my computer redirected to Wikipedia:Neutral point of view; can you explain a bit more?

I am trying now to follow Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. Below is what I wrote. Does anybody have suggestions for improvement? Thanks. Herbmuell (talk) 11:42, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The book contains 8 chapters.

I INTRODUCTION - Brief survey of the standard model of cosmology. Overview of the contents of the book.

II THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE - Galaxies, their radial velocity and distance with respect to our galaxy, Hubble's law. The Cosmological Principle. Einstein, de Sitter and Friedmann models of the universe. Open or closed universe? The critical energy density. Horizon for observation.

III THE COSMIC MICROWAVE RADIATION BACKGROUND - History of its prediction and discovery. Planck's distribution and Temperature, effect of the expansion of the universe on both. Ratio of nuclear particles to photons as an invariant. Jeans Mass, radiation pressure and galaxy formation.

IV RECIPE FOR A HOT UNIVERSE - Relation between age and (photon) temperature of the universe. Imbalance of matter and antimatter. Conserved quantities: electric charge, bayon number, lepton number(s). Neutrinos.

V THE FIRST THREE MINUTES - The evolution of the universe in six frames: at 10¹¹°K, 3×10¹⁰°K, 10¹⁰°K, 3×10⁹°K, 10⁹°K (@ 3 minutes), 3×10⁸°K. Nucleosynthesis, primordeal abundances of Helium and Deuterium in the present universe.

VI A HISTORICAL DIVERSION - Why was the cosmic microwave radiation background detected so late (1965)?

VII THE FIRST ONE-HUNDREDTH SECOND - Speculations about what happened before the first frame. Hadron production and strong interaction. Quarks, and why there are no free quarks left-over. Electromagnetic and weak interaction: a phase transition at 3×10¹⁵°K. Gravity at ultra-high temperatures. 10³²°K as an upper limit for speculation.

VIII EPILOGUE: THE PROSPECT AHEAD - The fate of the universe if it is open, and if it is closed.

Tables - Glossary - A mathematical supplement - Afterword written in 1993 - Suggestions for further reading.

Hello Herbmuell thanks for your help improving this article. I don't know what is the Manual of Style for books, if it exists any at all, but you can check similar book articles and mimic their style. For example {{Carl Sagan}} books. The Demon-Haunted World is divided into themes, The Dragons of Eden uses the Summary approach, etc. Regards. --emijrp (talk) 12:08, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, the article in its current state is itself almost "completely irrelevant" in that it provides virtually no information about the contents of the book for those who might be interested in it. Adding a list of chapter titles, with or without additional comments, would significantly increase the value and relevance of this article. 203.56.42.0 (talk) 06:28, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 203.56.42.0, that is some support for my book summary as it is. If I get some more support, I will put it back in. Herbmuell (talk) 07:21, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]