"GENEVA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - For the first time, physicists
have created a new form of matter by recreating the
conditions thought to have existed 10 microseconds after
the Big Bang at the start of the universe, scientists
announced on Thursday. "
"The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN),
based outside Geneva, said scientists from more than 20
countries conducted a series of experiments which
smashed together heavy lead ions in a fireball to prove a
theory that had only existed on paper for years. "
"This provided "compelling evidence" for the existence of a
new state of nuclear matter, a quark-gluon plasma, which
CERN described as "the primordial soup in which quarks
and gluons existed before they clumped together as the
universe cooled down". "
Larry
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Larry Cartwright <exit60@ia4u.net>
Physics and Physical Science Teacher
Charlotte HS, Charlotte MI USA
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