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'Perfect' liquid hot enough to be quark soup
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory ^ | Feb 15, 2010 | Unknown

Posted on 02/15/2010 7:17:49 AM PST by decimon

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Also, 'Bubbles' of broken symmetry in quark soup at RHIC
1 posted on 02/15/2010 7:17:49 AM PST by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

Toil and trouble ping.


2 posted on 02/15/2010 7:18:25 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

All I know is every time they switch that SuperCollider on, Biden crashes his car.


3 posted on 02/15/2010 7:21:31 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: decimon

The source of gorebull warming and bad TV reception


4 posted on 02/15/2010 7:22:09 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: decimon

I like my Quark soup with noodles.


5 posted on 02/15/2010 7:22:22 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: decimon

I’d like my Quarks with side order of pions with a supersized order of mesons to go please! And hold the gluons!


6 posted on 02/15/2010 7:24:17 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: decimon

So they rigged up a bunch of candy thermometers in tandem?

Seriously how do they KNOW its multitrillion degrees? How can they know its not just 2 trillion or 10t for that matter.

And at that temp, why was their vessel or containment not melted to sludge, even if it lasted just a blink of a second?


7 posted on 02/15/2010 7:28:42 AM PST by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09! WTFU!)
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To: Adder
Exactly!

Methinks they borrowed the computerr that gave us hockey stick statistics and develoiped a 'model'

8 posted on 02/15/2010 7:31:02 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: decimon

So they rigged up a bunch of candy thermometers in tandem?

Seriously how do they KNOW its multitrillion degrees? How can they know its not just 2 trillion or 10t for that matter.

And at that temp, why was their vessel or containment not melted to sludge, even if it lasted just a blink of a second?


9 posted on 02/15/2010 7:33:38 AM PST by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09! WTFU!)
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To: Adder

sorry for the double post....


10 posted on 02/15/2010 7:34:30 AM PST by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09! WTFU!)
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To: Adder

because magnetic fields are used for containment.


11 posted on 02/15/2010 7:36:26 AM PST by rahbert
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To: Adder

High temperature does not mean high heat.

For instance: a spark from a sparkler/hand-held firework is perhaps 2000 degrees C in temperature, but if it lands on your hand you won’t feel it.

Whereas if you tipped a bucket of water at the prosaically low temperature of 100 degree C over you, it would put you in hospital.


12 posted on 02/15/2010 7:36:32 AM PST by agere_contra
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And at that temp, why was their vessel or containment not melted to sludge, even if it lasted just a blink of a second??

Yep - I'm more interesting in what the 'wall' was made of...

13 posted on 02/15/2010 7:38:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Nobody likes to be lectured by those claiming superior wisdom but lacking common sense - - Hanson)
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To: decimon

Until we get a handle on the ‘bottle size’ of time and space at the events depicted ‘in the beginning’, we will not figure out why there is what there is.


14 posted on 02/15/2010 7:42:42 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Adder

>And at that temp, why was their vessel or containment not melted to sludge, even if it lasted just a blink of a second?

The ‘vessel’ was probably the collier itself. If temp follows the inverse-square law, then every unit-of-length would be half the temperature of the previous; therefore if it was a single atom in volume, every atom’s-width would be half the previous temperature and the repeated-squaring the denominator experiences gets REALLY BIG really fast.


15 posted on 02/15/2010 7:43:35 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: decimon

I keep wondering when scientist are going to try to figure out was going on a minute before the universe started, and what the cause of Creation was......


16 posted on 02/15/2010 7:51:19 AM PST by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: decimon
establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius — the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, about 250,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun

yea... what could possibly go wrong with this setup...

17 posted on 02/15/2010 8:01:02 AM PST by sten
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I keep wondering when scientist are going to try to figure out was going on a minute before the universe started, and what the cause of Creation was......

Me, too. While they're at it, I'd really like to know what our expanding universe is expanding into. The whole concepts of infinity really bugs me. Yep...I've read up on String Theory, too, and I'm still foggy on things. Mind-boggling stuff...Can't wait for Hadron to fire up...

18 posted on 02/15/2010 8:02:10 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
And hold the gluons!

That's easy--they're gluons, after all.

19 posted on 02/15/2010 8:12:53 AM PST by Erasmus (Buffalo: "I never met an Indian I didn't like, with the possible exception of Deepak Chopra.")
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To: sten
Gregory Benford's Cosm.
20 posted on 02/15/2010 8:18:42 AM PST by Erasmus (Buffalo: "I never met an Indian I didn't like, with the possible exception of Deepak Chopra.")
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