STONY BROOK, Jan. 16 — Scientists say they used a particle accelerator to smash the nuclei of gold atoms together to make the highest density of matter ever created in an experiment.
THE ACCELERATOR, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, smashed the nuclei together at nearly the speed of light, Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists said at a conference Monday. Physicists who studied the debris streaming from the
collisions concluded that densities more than 20 times higher than those within the nuclei of ordinary matter had been produced. Temperatures in the compressed matter topped 1 trillion degrees.
The researchers believe that large amounts of matter so dense and so hot last existed a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the informal term scientists use for the beginning of the universe.
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THE ACCELERATOR, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, smashed the nuclei together at nearly the speed of light, Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists said at a conference Monday. Physicists who studied the debris streaming from the
collisions concluded that densities more than 20 times higher than those within the nuclei of ordinary matter had been produced. Temperatures in the compressed matter topped 1 trillion degrees.
The researchers believe that large amounts of matter so dense and so hot last existed a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the informal term scientists use for the beginning of the universe.
Want to learn more? http://www.msnbc.com/news/517044.asp
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-Administrator / Owner
"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed
