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Universal Goo

Posted by timothy on from the star-batter dept.

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."

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  1. How compatible ... by gustgr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... this is with the String Theory ?

  2. I know where to buy this stuff... by weeboo0104 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's where you can get a LOT of goo in eggs.

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  3. I'm wondering... by Lady+Jazzica · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article says:

    Previous measurements have shown that the lump of material at the center of that collision is from 10 to 100 times as dense as normal nuclear matter. Its temperature is more than a trillion degrees.

    How do they measure things like this?

  4. Re:Is this really necessary? by Alsee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

    Perhaps, but if so it already happens countless times every day anyway. The Earth's atmosphere (and every object in the universe) is continuously bombarded by cosmic rays - atomic neuclei with orders of magnitude more energy more than we can muster in any accelerator we could build.

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