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Closing In On The Quark-Gluon Plasma
Martin writes "A series of presentations and a press conference was held today at Brookhaven National Laboratory about new
results from the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider. The latest run was finished only a few weeks
ago. The results are a new milestone in the search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new
state of nuclear matter. The data were analyzed on large
Linux clusters at BNL and in Japan and France, with the biggest cluster of
about 1100 dual-CPU nodes located at the RHIC
Computing Facility. It's nice to see that results are out so soon
after the data were taken. There were previous stories about RHIC on /.,
here(1),
here(2)
and here(3)."
I've heard of strap-ons, wouldn't a gluon hurt when removed?
Trolling is a art,
I was all excited about this at first, but it turns out that it's just a milestone in the search for quark-gluon plasma. I guess I'll have to put up with plain old photon-muon plasma for a couple more years.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith
"The data were analyzed on large Linux clusters at BNL..."
Who would've thought that the musical group Bare Naked Ladies ran linux.
This sig has no nutritional value...
Give Star Trek writers a larger vocabulary.
"Captian, it will take at least an hour to clean the quantum-transductor of all residual Quark-Gluon plasma!"
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
The top, purple band is the realm where QGP can exist, at very high temperatures above 1,000,000,000,000 degrees.
Is that in Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Sig? What sig? Do I have to have a sig!?!?
The results are a new milestone in the search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new state of nuclear matter.
...it's a 13.7 billion year old state of matter.
Interdimensional Gateway Opens in Suffolk County.
Elder Gods awake from aeons of slumber.
Film at Eleven.