Multiple Choice
Within the first second after the Big Bang,the universe was filled with high-energy,gamma-ray photons.These photons created huge numbers of elementary particles and their antiparticles through pair production.What happened to these particles?
A) They are still here. They combined to create the first atoms and molecules that compose the physical universe.
B) The particles are still with us as atoms and molecules, but almost all of the antiparticles disappeared.
C) These particle-antiparticle pairs annihilated to produce more photons.
D) This pair production was followed by the era of cosmic inflation during which these particles spread out to produce the matter densities that we see today.
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