Posted on 12/12/2018 7:17:18 AM PST by ETL
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 PHENIX team used the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory to recreate that matter.
In a series of tests, the physicists smashed packets of small projectiles in different combinations (single protons, two-particle deuterons, and three-particle helium-3 nuclei) into much bigger gold nuclei.
“RHIC is the only accelerator in the world where we can perform such a tightly controlled experiment, colliding particles made of one, two, and three components with the same larger nucleus, gold, all at the same energy,” said PHENIX team member Professor Jamie Nagle, a researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
The scientists discovered that, by carefully controlling conditions, they could generate droplets of quark-gluon plasma that expanded to form three different geometric patterns.
“Imagine that you have two droplets that are expanding into a vacuum,” Professor Nagle said.
“If the two droplets are really close together, then as they’re expanding out, they run into each other and push against each other, and that’s what creates this pattern.”
“In other words, if you toss two stones into a pond close together, the ripples from those impacts will flow into each other, forming a pattern that resembles an ellipse.”
“The same could be true if you smashed a proton-neutron pair, called a deuteron, into something bigger.”
“Likewise, a proton-proton-neutron trio, also known as a helium-3 atom, might expand out into something akin to a triangle.”
And that’s exactly what the PHENIX researchers found: collisions of deuterons formed short-lasting ellipses, helium-3 atoms formed triangles and a single proton exploded in the shape of a circle.
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And the 'universe' was how big? The size of a coconut?..............
Bad marketing..
The payoff from the experiments:
“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.”
Getting closer to the hand of God in all of this. (Leftist/atheist brain explosions in 3, 2, 1...)
Dang, I’m surprised you didn’t get a sponsored ad saying “Black Friday sale on your quark-gluon plasma droplets!”
That’s because they are marketed under the trade name “Ricola”
Scientists set up the experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
So there must have been a scientist setting up the original experiment, when the universe was just coming into being.
What percent of scientists except “the Big Bang theory” as absolute ?
“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.”
Getting closer to the hand of God in all of this.
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What if our knowledge of what happened is what caused it to happen?
If there was a lot of money and grants to be had, I guarantee there would be a ‘consensus’
Oven mitt
Two eggs for breakfast
Napoleon’s retreat from Russia
Nothing in science is “absolute”, but a quick check on Google says that 99.9 percent of members of the National Academies of Sciences accept the theory.
In the meantime, one in four Americans believe the sun goes around the earth, and we have enthusiastic flat earthers right here on FR. Make of that what you will.
No need ..you already made of it what you will.
I was really worried that they wouldn’t be able to make those Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets. I feel better now.
Well, if they accepted the Big Bang Theory as a fact, it wouldn’t be a Theory.
AS no one saw it happen, then the best we can say is that it “probably happened this way”.
As it stands, all we do know is that the local universe went from smaller to bigger. We can take good guesses as to what happened when it was really small, but, there comes a point where it’s all a good guess.
Yep..its a good guess.
Which I am okay with that.
Anyhow, have read other theories..including it wasn’t a “bang” at all.
I think Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets was some type of penny candy I used to buy as a kid in the 70’s.
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