[Profpat]

Hi JAK;

There is a lot of evidence that a there was annihilation at the beginning but was all anti-matter annihilated. Did an equal amount of anti-matter escape to a parallel universe?

As far as magnetic fields at the beginning, no one knows for sure. Here is an excerpt from an article in New Science Magazine ( January 2008 )

"One needs some initial, small magnetic field."
Some researchers have tried to explain the origin of this so-called "seed" field by invoking new physical mechanisms – such as the coupling of electromagnetic fields with exotic particles or gravity in the first instants after the big bang.
"There have been many models in this direction, most of which rely on new physics, and are therefore not convincing," comments George Field of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
Hot soup

Now, researchers led by Kiyotomo Ichiki of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo have used standard physics to explain the seed field. They say the field began before the first atoms formed, when the universe was a hot soup of protons, electrons and photons – a state that lasted for the first 370,000 years after the big bang.
Photons exert a different pressure on electrons than protons and also scatter off electrons more often. The researchers found that the differences in the movements of electrons and protons generated a rotating electric current, which produced magnetic fields.

Best to all,

Pat