What leads to magnetic monopoles existing before the Inflationary Epoch and becoming infinitely diluted during inflation (if indeed that is the explanation to their absence), but the electric monopoles we know today, namely the quarks and electrons, only forming at the end of the Electroweak Epoch? Indeed, if our thinking is correct, Electromagnetism didn't even exist prior to electroweak symmetry breaking, so in what sense can we even talk about magnetism or magnetic monopoles during the Grand Unified Epoch or earlier?
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