Calculate the temperature for which the ratio of free protons to free neutrons in the early stages of the universe would have been 7.0, assuming their distributions are fully thermalized (governed by Boltzmann statistics)
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Calculate the temperature for which the ratio of free protons to free neutrons in the early stages of the universe would have been 7.0, assuming their distributions are fully thermalized (governed by Boltzmann statistics)
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