Assertion: universe | /r/HasProperty | hot
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: at some very early stage
type: TEMPORAL
value: according to the big bang theory
type: OTHER
value: either way
type: MANNER
value: for the first 380,000 years
type: TEMPORAL
value: for matter
type: OTHER
value: to form neutral atoms
type: PURPOSE
value: during this period
type: TEMPORAL
value: essentially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: During this period, the universe was still far too hot for matter to form neutral atoms, so it contained a hot, dense, foggy plasma of negatively charged electrons, neutral neutrinos and positive nuclei.
text: For the first 380,000 years or so, the universe was essentially too hot for light to shine, according to France's National Center of Space Research (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, or CNES).
text: Either way, the universe was once very, very small and hot.
text: According to the Big Bang theory, the universe at the beginning was very hot and very small, and since then it is expanding and cooling down.
text: It is generally assumed that when the universe was young and very hot it was in statistical equilibrium and contained equal numbers of baryons and antibaryons.
text: Planck scale dynamics are important for cosmology because by tracing the evolution of the cosmos back to the very beginning, at some very early stage the universe should have been so hot that processes involving energies as high as the Planck energy (corresponding to distances as short as the Planck length) may have occurred.
text: It is hypothesized that during the period of baryogenesis, when the universe was extremely hot and dense, matter and antimatter were continually produced and annihilated.