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posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 14 2018, @02:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the gooey-gluon dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Friday December 14 2018, @05:18PM (2 children)

    by Appalbarry (66) on Friday December 14 2018, @05:18PM (#774468) Journal

    ... 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)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday December 15 2018, @01:47AM (#774646) Journal

      And as always, the first application is... weapon?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @04:48AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @04:48AM (#774695)

        Anything's better than red matter.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15 2018, @05:19PM (#774827)

    IIRC the universe was too hot for atoms to form for some 300k years.

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