From Sci-News
Physicists from the PHENIX Collaboration have created droplets of a liquid-like state of matter called quark-gluon plasma, forming three distinct shapes and sizes — circles, ellipses and triangles.
Scientists believe that quark-gluon plasma filled the entire Universe during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang when the Universe was still too hot for particles to come together to make atoms.
[...] The scientists discovered that, by carefully controlling conditions, they could generate droplets of quark-gluon plasma that expanded to form three different geometric patterns.
[...] The results, published in the journal Nature Physics, could help theorists better understand how the Universe’s original quark-gluon plasma cooled over milliseconds, giving birth to the first atoms in existence.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Friday December 14 2018, @05:18PM (2 children)
... those damned overpaid physicists produced something that the average person can use!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 15 2018, @01:47AM (1 child)
And as always, the first application is... weapon?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @04:48AM
Anything's better than red matter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:19PM
IIRC the universe was too hot for atoms to form for some 300k years.