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Scientists Re-Create High Temperatures From Big Bang
ABC News ^ | 2/16/2010 | Dan Vergano

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: atomsmasher; brookhavenlaboratory; cosmology; departmentofenergy; ioncollider; nuclearphysics; physics; science; stringtheory; theoreticalphysics; universe
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1 posted on 02/16/2010 1:36:09 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove

“Atom smashers at a U.S. national lab have produced temperatures not seen since the Big Bang — 7.2 trillion degrees.”

OK, if they recreated it - how come no new big bang.

Guess they were wrong again.


2 posted on 02/16/2010 1:38:36 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: sonofstrangelove

BAZINGA!


3 posted on 02/16/2010 1:38:43 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: sonofstrangelove

7.2 trillion. Isn’t that what AlGore said the temp was inside the earth?


4 posted on 02/16/2010 1:39:38 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: sonofstrangelove

Boy that is almost as hot as the center of the earth according to Al Gore.


5 posted on 02/16/2010 1:39:53 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: edcoil

>>OK, if they recreated it - how come no new big bang.<<

How do we know? For all we know the Universe was destroyed and an exact duplicate put in its place.


6 posted on 02/16/2010 1:40:07 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: edcoil

They only re-created it only to the few microseconds


7 posted on 02/16/2010 1:40:11 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: sonofstrangelove

So now that they have it what can they do with it.

It’s too hot to pop popcorn.


8 posted on 02/16/2010 1:40:23 PM PST by Venturer
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To: sonofstrangelove

Do they have any contingency plans just in case this thing gets out of hand ?


9 posted on 02/16/2010 1:42:04 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I guess he knows, he’s been there.


10 posted on 02/16/2010 1:42:50 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: edcoil
OK, if they recreated it - how come no new big bang. Guess they were wrong again.

The temperature was probably confined to a much smaller space than the Big Bang. Besides, the Big Bang was more than just temperature.

A nuclear bomb puts out as much heat as the sun, but we don't fire up a new sun every time we light one off.

11 posted on 02/16/2010 1:48:18 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (Social Justice is the goal of all liberal legislation.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Yes, they do. I have never heard of an accident at these “atom smasher” facilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_particle_collisions_at_the_Large_Hadron_Collider


12 posted on 02/16/2010 1:48:25 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: sonofstrangelove

You can’t read things like this and believe them, anymore.

You have to consider whether the scientist is motivated by grants or politics or both. Or you have to wonder if their source is a college kid backpacking in Europe.


13 posted on 02/16/2010 1:49:39 PM PST by ryan71 (Let's Roll!)
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To: edcoil
OK, if they recreated it - how come no new big bang.

That's where the 57th State came from.

14 posted on 02/16/2010 1:50:13 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: sonofstrangelove

I’m hardly a Luddite, but I’ve got a feeling this isn’t going to end well.


15 posted on 02/16/2010 1:51:42 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: ryan71

I believe it. The most interesting thing to come out of this is will be the development of a micro black hole.


16 posted on 02/16/2010 1:51:55 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: sonofstrangelove

...they also re-created the Prime Mover.

big deal
proves nothing


17 posted on 02/16/2010 1:53:58 PM PST by woollyone (I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
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To: sonofstrangelove

How do you dissipate 7.2 trillion degrees?


18 posted on 02/16/2010 1:54:55 PM PST by TalBlack
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To: freedumb2003
For all we know the Universe was destroyed and an exact duplicate put in its place.

Was it replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable?

19 posted on 02/16/2010 1:55:19 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: edcoil

Your statement makes no sense. No one claims that the high temperature *caused* the Big Bang, only that the temperatures were PRESENT at the time of the Big Bang.

You are putting the cart before the horse. That’s like a painter mixing colors together to get a hue that is in the Mona Lisa and you wondering when another Mona Lisa did not spontaneously erupt from the mixture.


20 posted on 02/16/2010 1:58:47 PM PST by bolobaby
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