Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

>
> I'm wondering if the fact that baryogenesis happened well after inflation
> had anything to do with it. Basically, there wasn't any mass until after the
> universe was big enough?
>

But energy and mass are equivalent--E=MC^2 and all that--so even before baryonic
matter 'arrived', wouldn't the raw energy content of the universe have exerted
gravity as well? Assuming the laws of nature were the same then (which, upon
further thought, might be a rather large assumption IMO.)

Ken

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