Mini Big Bang Created, Puzzling Results Too Explosive
Mon Mar 21,10:39 AM ET
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Michael Schirber
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What do you get when you turn the temperature up to a trillion degrees?
Quite a heating bill.
Actually physicists claim that at this temperature nuclear material melts into an exotic form of matter called a quark-gluon plasma - thought to have been the state of the universe a microsecond after the Big Bang.
Recreating this primordial soup is the primary purpose of the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (news - web sites). After five years of data, it appears as if RHIC may have succeeded.
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