In the book of _The First Three Minutes_ by Weinberg, at page 106-107, it is stated that > SECOND FRAME. The temperature of the universe is 30,000 million > degrees Kelvin [...] The nuclear particle balance has conse- quently > shifted to 38 per cent neutrons and 62 per cent protons. > [...] > THIRD FRAME. The temperature of the universe is 10,000 million degrees > Kelvin. [...] The decreasing temperature has now allowed the > proton-neutron balance to shift to 24 per cent neutrons and 76 per > cent protons. What is the reason for this balance shift between neutrons and protons exaclty ? and what does determine this rate of the change this shift ?