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The primeval atom was a concept developed by Georges Lamaitre, a Belgian priest and astrophysicist, in the 1920s. He envisioned the universe being created by the breakup of this primeval atom, an idea that presaged the Big Bang theory.


Sternglass saw this primeval atom as an electron-positron pair. This pair of particles rapidly orbited each other and contained all of the mass of the universe.


In a series of steps beginning billions of years before the Big Bang, this electron-positron pair went through a series of splits, creating thousands of electron-positron "seed pairs" from which galaxies later would emerge.


By contrast, according to the standard model of particle physics, the universe was condensed into an infinitely dense point before the Big The primeval atom was a concept developed by Georges Lamaitre, a Belgian priest and astrophysicist, in the 1920s. He envisioned the universe being created by the breakup of this primeval atom, an idea that presaged the Big Bang theory.


Sternglass saw this primeval atom as an electron-positron pair. This pair of particles rapidly orbited each other and contained all of the mass of the universe.


In a series of steps beginning billions of years before the Big Bang, this electron-positron pair went through a series of splits, creating thousands of electron-positron "seed pairs" from which galaxies later would emerge.


By contrast, according to the standard model of particle physics, the universe was condensed into an infinitely dense point before the Big Bang.


Sternglass said his model and the standard model don't differ markedly in terms of how elementary particles were formed in the minutes following the Big Bang.


Astrophysicists have long worried that the universe behaves as if it has much more mass than humans can see. Sternglass suggests some of this "missing mass" may be in the form of seed pairs that did not expand immediately after the Big Bang and remain sprinkled through the universe.



Sternglass said his model and the standard model don't differ markedly in terms of how elementary particles were formed in the minutes following the Big Bang.


Astrophysicists have long worried that the universe behaves as if it has much more mass than humans can see. Sternglass suggests some of this "missing mass" may be in the form of seed pairs that did not expand immediately after the Big Bang and remain sprinkled through the universe.