The very earliest SLAP was so hot, or energetic, that initially no pals existed or could exist (except perhaps in the most fleeting sense), and the posters we see around us today were believed to be merged into one unified poster. Threads themselves expanded during an inflationary epoch due to the immensity of the energies involved. Gradually the immense energies cooled – still to a temperature inconceivably hot compared to any we see around us now, but sufficiently to allow posters to gradually undergo symmetry breaking, a kind of repeated condensation from one status quo to another, leading finally to the separation of the strong posters (pals) from the electroweak posters, and thus, the pals themselves.