Exceptions To The Rule
This postulate, however, is completely untrue for the universe's most abundant, and simplest element from the periodic table of elements: hydrogen, with an atomic number of 1. Perhaps this is simply because of the fact that, in its ionized form, a hydrogen atom becomes a single proton, of which is theorized to have been one of the first major conglomerates of quarks during the initial second of the Universe's inflation period, following the Big Bang. In this period, when inflation of the universe had brought it from an infinitesimal point to about the size of a modern galaxy, temperatures in the particle soup fell from over a trillion degrees to several million degrees. This period allowed for the fusion of single protons and deuterium nuclei to form helium and lithium nuclei but remained brief and far too short for every H+ ion to be reconstituted into heavier elements; more notably, in this case, helium, atomic number 2, of which remains the even numbered counterpart to hydrogen. Thus, neutral hydrogen - or hydrogen paired with an electron, the only stable lepton - constituted the vast majority of the remaining unannihilated portions of matter following the conclusion of inflation.
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