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Posted by michael on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @11:12AM from the playing-tourist-with-RHIC dept.

DarkKnightRadick writes "An article at the NYTimes.com (Free reg) is reporting that researchers in Long Island, NY are attempting to create the quark-gluon plasma that existed a trillionth of a second after the big bang, when the universe was just the size of a marble or grapefruit. "Sam Aronson was perched a few stories up on a metal catwalk, surrounded by tons of Russian steel and Japanese electronics, and enough wires to impress even Con Ed, when he paused to say what really interested him about the $600 million machine. Time, he said. More precisely, the beginning of time, just after the Big Bang, some 14 billion years ago.""

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CERN's also been working on this. by Christopher+Thomas · 2003-01-14 12:41 · Score: 5, Informative

CERN has also been trying to produce a quark/gluon plasma (and may have already done it).

Googling only turns up articles of questionable use. You can find better information in their list of experiments, and maybe a summary elsewhere on the CERN web site.