Scientists Just Recreated the Big Bang's First Moments, and It’s More Complex Than We Thought
The Daily Galaxy • • science
Key Points:
- Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have recreated conditions similar to the first milliseconds after the Big Bang, uncovering that quark-gluon plasma behaves more like a liquid than a gas, challenging previous assumptions.
- Quark-gluon plasma is a state where quarks and gluons move freely in a hot, dense medium, with the study showing these particles interact collectively and flow like a liquid rather than existing as isolated particles.
- The LHC experiments involved colliding heavy atomic nuclei at near light speed to create fleeting droplets of quark-gluon plasma, allowing researchers to observe how high-energy quarks interact with this medium.
- By tracking quarks using Z bosons, scientists detected a subtle "
