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Universal Goo
leapis writes "The NY Times reports that Big Bang Goo may have been found. Scientists at the Bookhaven National Laboratory have 'cracked open protons and neutons like subatomic eggs to create a primordial form of matter that existed when the universe was roughly one-millionth of a second old,' according to recent diagnosic tests."
Because matter that existed when the universe was roughly one-millionth of a second old has been known for a loooong time. Most people call it Zsa Zsa Gabor.
When it comes to scientific goos, I still greatly prefer Silly Putty - no atom smasher required!
"It's like extremely hot fire. Extremely hot."
How hot is it in elephants?
"Derp de derp."
Only lasted 1E-6 seconds?
Should have used Tupperware(TM)!
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
He'll get a head on mount rushmore, and they'll "renovate" the Jefferson Memorial.
Because if you repeat it enough it becomes true enough.
In Planck's time, there were no computers, and playing a first person shooter usually meant a career in the army.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
'cracked open protons and neutons like subatomic eggs to create a primordial form of matter'
Dumb analogy. Better would be "battered protons and neutrons like subatomic eggs into yolk-eggwhite sludge"
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
They stick there finger in it. "Hey Bob, does this feel like 'over a trillion degrees' to you?" I'm betting they're just guessing, but I'm sure their calculations say it must be "really, really, REALLY hot!"
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Is there anyone else out there besides me that gets a bit creeped out by these experiments? The philosopher physicists tell us that it is impossible to know what was "before" the big bang because before it, there was nothing at all. I cry BS. My theory: before the big bang there were some idiots in a different spacial dimention standing around some new quantum experiment gizmo, playing with the fundamental bits of their little universe... BLAM!
How do we know that we're not spinning off different universes all the time in the different spatial dimentions with these experiments?! What if we're making huge explosions in their universes? What if they're pissed off and know where we are?
This all smacks to me like shades of Steven King's "The Mist".