Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang's Primordial Soup - and Finds Unexpected Pattern
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Particle collider experiment recreates the Big Bang's primordial soup — and finds an unexpected twist
A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up matter today.
An unexpected “dip” in data from the RHIC STAR experiment may be one of the most important clues yet to the existence of a long-sought “tipping point” in nuclear matter. Scientists studied about 1 billion heavy-ion collisions at different energies and noticed that the fluctuations in the behavior of the particles did not follow the expected smooth course. Instead, they showed a sharp dip and then rose again.
Physicists have discovered an unexpected pattern in collisions of gold cores that could indicate a long sought-after critical point in the development of extremely hot nuclear matter at the beginning of the universe. (Read more)
Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang's Primordial Soup - and Finds Unexpected Pattern
"Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles..." writes Live Science. "If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the universe in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang cooled and condensed into the protons and neutrons that make up ordinary matter today." In every collision, particles are flung out sideways; how h…
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