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Posted on 02/16/2010 1:36:08 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Atom smashers at a U.S. national lab have produced temperatures not seen since the Big Bang — 7.2 trillion degrees, or 250,000 times hotter than the sun's interior — in work re-creating the universe's first microseconds.
The results come from the 2.4-mile-wide Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven (N.Y.) National Laboratory. Since 2000, scientists there have hurtled gold atoms together at nearly the speed of light. These smash-ups heat bubbles smaller than the center of an atom to about 40 times hotter than the center of an imploding supernova.
Scientists say the results have given them insight into the moments after the universe began 13.7 billion years ago.
"The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider was designed to re-create conditions in the infant universe," Brookhaven's Steven Vigdor said at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, D.C.
"These (collision) temperatures are hot enough to melt protons," Vigdor says, likely forming a soup of subatomic particles freed from the interior of atoms, called a "quark-gluon" plasma. "It is new and important evidence showing that an exotic form of matter, last seen in the Big Bang, has been formed," says physicist Thomas Cohen of the University of Maryland in College Park, who was not part of the experiment. "It is not quite a 'smoking gun' in that it is also
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>>Was it replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable?<<
Long ago. But I am sure you are too Hoopy a Frood to have let it bother you.
I suggest we go out and win awards.
I hope they used sun screen.
when=why in last post
Or another universe was created.
My guess is through the Laws of Thermodynamics
This was just a collision of the branes
It's actually several THOUSAND as any high school kid knows!
The amount of mass involved was miniscule, the specific heat of a gluon quark mixture is a little hard to calculate (I'm not sure how many degrees of freedom are involved) but if we assume it's about the same as the original nucleus, one mole of gold is 6 x 10^23 atoms ~ 200 grams, so there was enough energy to raise the temperature of 200 grams, about half a pound, of gold, by about 10^-11 degrees (7.2 x 10^12 / 6 x 10^23) Celcius. Approximately equal to the amount of CO2 induced global warming since 1900.
let’s see, billions of years ago a bunch of gold atoms smashed into ech other and made a universe. interesting. with what instrument do you measure 7 trillion degrees? just wondering.
The temperature at the inner core is about 9800 degrees F and the pressure in Earth’s inner core is about 330 to 360 gigapascals
Scientists use the Kelvin unit of measure.
“For all we know the Universe was destroyed and an exact duplicate put in its place.”
Odd, I feel like I’ve been living in an alternate reality for the past year.
>The temperature at the inner
>core is about 9800 degrees F
The core-mantle boundary was just re-estimated to be about 6,600 degrees F.
From 2007, NationalGeograhic.com...
“New high-resolution seismic images have produced the best estimate to date of the temperature of Earth’s extremely deep interior, researchers report.
Using a method initially developed for oil and gas exploration, the scientists studied the core-mantle boundary, a region that lies about 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the planet’s surface....”
“Reporting in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Science, the team calculated that the temperature of the region is 3,950 Kelvin, plus or minus 200.
This translates to a fiery 6,650 degrees Fahrenheit (3,677 degrees Celsius)—which is actually lower than previous predictions.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070329-earth-core.html
Al Gore: Earth’s Interior “Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees”
Another of these potentially hazardous things to come out of these temperatures is something called strange matter.Strange matter is a particular form of quark matter, usually thought of as a ‘liquid’ of up, down, and strange quarks. Theoretically, strange matter only exist inside neutron stars where the pressure and temperature is extremely high
Ok. I did not know that. As we are getting to know the forces of our planet this change.
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