Particle - field, okay. To me, a 'particle' is just a temporary entity that happens when a field has an 'interaction' and decides to have its wave function 'co

Particle - field, okay. To me, a 'particle' is just a temporary entity that happens when a field has an 'interaction' and decides to have its wave function 'collapse' -- then it has a new wave function. I was trying to go back before there was a 'soup' of wave functions with lots of quarks or whatever the first 'particle' was. So, as I read Guth, there was a 'something', small enough to be essentially just a 'point', but with very high energy and energy density, and that density caused high space-time curvature, and the region with that high curvature expanded, explosively, on the way to something much flatter but much larger, in the first second so large as to be nearly as large as now and with density and curvature nearly as low as now. So, back to the 'beginning': There was just one particle/wave of very high energy in a very small region of very high curvature that got pulled by the expanding space-time and, presto, soon there was two particles or wave functions. That first separation is the one I am thinking about, and it had to have an axis. And nearly all I have is just layman's descriptions of the curvature, wave functions, Guth's expansion, etc. so am typing stuff I really don't know about! In some of the math, my real field, I'm solid enough, but for the physics -- no.