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What are the most common elements in the Universe?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Origin of Protons in the Universe

In like the blink of an eye, we've got quarks, but not yet protons. And so it's too hot for protons to form. If you heat up the whole universe, then protons sort of melt into their constituents. So that was the birth of hydrogen, 10 to the minus six seconds into the universe.

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