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Creation Timeline

July 11, 2006

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Creation Timeline Table

First Posted 02-28-2000

Updated 07-11-2006

Time From Creation Event	Event
0	moment of creation (some kind of singularity)
0 to 10^-43 seconds	release of space curvature
10^-43 seconds	loss of dimensions
10^-43 seconds	superforce separates into gravity and the strong electroweak force
10^-35 seconds	strong electroweak separates into the strong and electroweak forces
10^-35 seconds	photons and leptons appear
10^-11 seconds	electroweak force separates into the weak and electromagnetic forces
10^-10 seconds	quarks appear
10^-5 to 10^-4 seconds	baryons and anti-baryons appear
0.001 seconds	annihilation of anti-matter occurs
3 minutes	nuclei appear
300,000 years	atoms appear; light separates from darkness (outer space becomes black)
365 million years	first stars form
500 million years	first galaxies appear
2 billion years	all manner of quasars and galaxies appear
9 billion years	solar system appears
10 billion years	life created on Earth
13 billion years	creation of dozens of new phyla (Cambrian explosion)
13.5 billion years	creation of dinosaurs
13.73 billion years	creation of man
13.73 billion years	the present

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