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Hottest temperature ever heads science to Big Bang
Yahoo! News ^ | Feb 15 2010 | Maggie Fox

Posted on 02/15/2010 8:07:54 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe.

They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.

But that is enough to give physicists fodder for years of study that they hope will help them understand why and how the universe formed.

"That temperature is hot enough to melt protons and neutrons," Brookhaven's Steven Vigdor told a news conference at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington on Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigbang; scientism; stringtheory
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1 posted on 02/15/2010 8:07:55 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814
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To: GL of Sector 2814

Man-made warming I can believe in.


2 posted on 02/15/2010 8:08:48 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: GL of Sector 2814

New snow removal tool?


3 posted on 02/15/2010 8:12:47 PM PST by tubebender (Thanks to all the Patriots who support Free Republic financially...)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

If you average in that 4 trillion degrees with the temperature of 1,000 other places on Earth, you can see that the average temperature of the Earth increased by 4 billion degrees.


4 posted on 02/15/2010 8:13:58 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

Bazinga!


5 posted on 02/15/2010 8:14:29 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: GL of Sector 2814
They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.

Milliseconds ??? You might as well say they lasted only for centuries.

OK, now somebody tell me they actually did last for milliseconds. What do I know?

6 posted on 02/15/2010 8:18:29 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: GL of Sector 2814
But that is enough to give physicists fodder for years of study that they hope will help them understand why and how the universe formed.

When I read things like that I wonder if these people just make stuff up to get grants.

7 posted on 02/15/2010 8:20:09 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: freedumb2003

GET OUT OF THE BALL PIT!


8 posted on 02/15/2010 8:21:16 PM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: GL of Sector 2814

“That temperature is hot enough to melt protons and neutrons,”

I’m not sure “melt” is the right word in this context.


9 posted on 02/15/2010 8:23:44 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: GL of Sector 2814

Wow! That’s even hotter than the center of the Earth. /Algore mode


10 posted on 02/15/2010 8:25:11 PM PST by magslinger (Cry MALAISE! and let slip the dogs of incompetence.)
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I’m not sure “melt” is the right word in this context.

It's probably safe to say that the concept is being dumbed dow...um, simplified, for the masses.

11 posted on 02/15/2010 8:27:19 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814
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To: GL of Sector 2814

“Bereshith bara Elohim...”


12 posted on 02/15/2010 8:28:54 PM PST by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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To: GL of Sector 2814

So hot you could fry an egg on the cyclotron.


13 posted on 02/15/2010 8:30:19 PM PST by Rocky (Obama's policy: A thousand points of lies.)
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To: dr_lew

I got the feeling that the author didn’t have a clue regarding the subject to which she had been assigned. The way she was throwing around terms like “millisecond” and “microsecond” - I’m not certain if she knew that these words have actual, unambiguously defined meanings.


14 posted on 02/15/2010 8:36:09 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: tubebender
New snow removal tool?

Heck yeah!


15 posted on 02/15/2010 8:38:17 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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>>I got the feeling that the author didn’t have a clue regarding the subject to which she had been assigned. The way she was throwing around terms like “millisecond” and “microsecond” - I’m not certain if she knew that these words have actual, unambiguously defined meanings.<<

Let’s toss “picosecond” out there and see how she reacts...


16 posted on 02/15/2010 8:39:09 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: LiteKeeper
“Bereshith bara Elohim...”

Had to google that. I recognized the word "Elohim", but not the rest.

17 posted on 02/15/2010 8:41:23 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814
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To: LiteKeeper

Amen!


18 posted on 02/15/2010 8:57:11 PM PST by milagro
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To: GL of Sector 2814

In the beginning God.......


19 posted on 02/15/2010 8:58:01 PM PST by milagro
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To: GL of Sector 2814

“It’s probably safe to say that the concept is being dumbed dow...um, simplified, for the masses.”

I guess they pushed simplification a little harder than I would have. “Flies apart into little tiny pieces” would maybe be closer, if still misleading. “And then something really weird happens that we only understand a little . . . “ might be even closer.


20 posted on 02/15/2010 9:02:46 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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