Big Bang Conditions Created in Lab

Big Bang Conditions Created in Lab

Posted by admin in Science, Space on 15. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments

Computer simulations of the lab work, clockwise from top left: Gluons and quarks; gold ions about to collide; just after the collision; the resulting perfect liquid. Credit: RHIC WASHINGTON – By smashing gold particles together at super-fast speeds, physicists have basically melted protons, creating a kind of “quark soup” of matter that is about 250,000 [...]