Looking for Quark-Gluon Plasma?

uctbruce writes "Following the June press release from Brookhaven National Lab, nuclear physicists from around the world are discussing the results of the 4 RHIC experiments (PHOBOS, STAR, PHENIX and BRAHMS), the New York Times ran an article on the Quark Matter conference in Oakland. Have we re-created the first microseconds of the big bang in the lab? (Have a look at the Google cluster of stories)"

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Re:Thank God we're still alive

[Vellmont]

We have always been experimenting with things we don't fully understand.

Yes, that's why people experiment with things, because they don't understand them. If we fully understood something, there'd be no need to experiment.

Your objections seem a bit out of order. The particle experiments that are being done contain less energy than in a fastball, it's just highly concentrated.

It's impossible for anyone to blow up anything more than the apparatus with a fusion experiment, as the reaction stops as soon the containment of the plasma stops. If you're concerned about anything, you should be concerned about biological research, not some sci-fi notions of a physicist twiddling the wrong electron and destroying the universe.