Collider Heat

posted February 26, 2010 #

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The Large Hadron Collider still isn\'t entirely up and running but the Brookhaven National Lab\'s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is operational and doing some crazy things. Such as:
...they showed off some of that power by announcing that a recent collision resulted in the hottest matter ever recorded. Coming in at a scorching 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, the plasma not only recreated the environment of the Big Bang, but might have also resulted in the temporary formation of a bubble within which some normal laws of physics did not apply.
Coupled with this:
...if these results are vindicated, the bubbles seem to hint that the laws of physics are not fixed across all space, and could change depending on size and temperature.
Insanity. It\'s tough to even begin to wrap your brain around that.

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