The Inert Young Universe

It may sound as though the beginning of the universe was a highly turbulent period given the vast expansion that brought about all existence and the fact that everything was once a quadrillion degrees. Undoubtedly, the vast amount of dark hydrogen whirling around was similar to a cosmic storm cloud, generating trillions of the identical lightning strikes that probably ignited life on Earth.

The likelihood that this was not the case turns out to be extremely high, but not because there was no energy. Actually, it was due to an excess of very specific types of energy, as stated in a paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 by Frank Wilczek and Sean Robinson and reported by New Scientist.

Thus, the four fundamental forces of the cosmos are gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong forces. Strong force and gravity essentially served as a dampener when the cosmos initially began since there was so much antimatter and all stuff was squeezed together.

Hence, electricity could not occur even if quintillions of superheated hydrogen atoms collided. In actuality, it wasn't until after the cosmos had sufficiently expanded that it started to cool down that the energies stopped canceling each other out and electricity could start to appear in great quantities.