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Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid
Ted writes "Experiments at the worlds largest nuclear collider, RHIC, at Brookhaven National Laboratory reveal striking new features of the state of the early Universe. With RHICs enormous collision energy, the researchers can create matter that is composed of the fundamental building blocks of nature, quarks and gluons, in a state with temperatures of more than 1000 billion degrees. The Universe is believed to have been in this state in the first microsecond after the Big Bang. Later the quarks and gluons were trapped in the nuclear particles that the visible universe is composed of today.
Until recently, researchers have thought that the quarks and gluons formed a gas. The latest results from RHIC, however, indicate that under the extreme conditions just around the phase transition from quarks and gluons to ordinary matter, the quarks and gluons behaved as a liquid - in fact an almost perfect liquid."
indicate that under the extreme conditions just around the phase transition from quarks and gluons to ordinary matter, the quarks and gluons behaved as a liquid - in fact an almost perfect liquid."
This sfinally proves what I have been trying to explain for years.. the universe was born from a pool of beer!
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Fluidic Space? I knew I saw species 8472 around here the other day!
in fact an almost perfect liquid - I knew it! The universe was created from a shot of vodka!
You can't handle the truth.
check their calculations??? Until 5 minutes ago I didn't even know what a gluon was... (I have heard of a quark... and no, not the one from Star Trek)...
I couldn't check their spelling at this point... forget their calculations...
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The Great Green Arkleseizure Theory
"According to that most famous of sages, Douglas Adams, the Jartravartids believe that the entire Universe was, in fact, sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure. They live in perpetual fear of the time they call the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief..."
... Astroglide?
I thought a gluon was a derogatory term for a toupee.
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Splendid, Mr. Data. Continue with your research. Dismissed.
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The scientists themselves suggest that the liquid state is one of a number of states that quark/gluon soups can take, but that the early Universe was still most likely a gas.
That's what Mick Jagger said.
Why you whippersnappers! I remember before we had Data suggesting superfluid universes we had Spock. Spock was always solid and reliable. Spock taught us how to be people none of this gibberish about the beginnign of universes... Why at Amok Time he said, ""It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers." -- and that's as true now as it was then.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
Yeah Ted? Well there is a new Pope in town... And he is pissed! You have, as of late, chosen to acknowledge the existance of: 1- Quarks, 2- Gluons, 3- the scientific method, and worst of all: 4- the "big bang." You are a witch and will be prosecuted as such... just as soon as everyone gets back from the Imax theater.
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Well done. You've managed to find a sentence in Genesis that contains the phrase "waters". Obviously God was alluding to the superfluid state of the early universe. How could we have been so stupid not to see it before now? That's it, I'm converting to Christianity. Obviously a religion whose holy book contains information about quantum particles is The Truth[tm].
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And what comes after Billiards?
Snooker ?
What's even more interesting is the concept that Stephen Hawking and others refer to as 'imaginary time.' Since, as you point out, time expanded alongside space, we can't really measure how old the universe is, since it may be infinitely old from any vantage point within it. (If space was ever infinitely small, then real time is infinite.)
I've been wanting to get paid for this imaginary time for decades, but somehow various employers haven't approved the timesheets. And they've not bought into the idea that I've been solving their problems on the existential plane and working while sleeping (or travelling to work). Then again, I don't have a Ph.D.
Fucking ungrateful bastards.
Isn't that what The Holy Bible say ? First that was nothing, then there was water, then land.
Guess the aliens that left the bible on earth was more advanced than we are