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."

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i had suspected this for years

[peculiarmethod]

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!

Cosmic Egg Not Cooked Solid ...

[rewinn]

... resulting in Big Splat.

Perfect Liquid?

[roman_mir]

in fact an almost perfect liquid - I knew it! The universe was created from a shot of vodka!

Re:That's one interpretation

[Quasar1999]

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...

So Douglas "Hitchhiker's" Adams was right again

[michaeldot]

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..."

You mean...

[jhurani]

... Astroglide?

Re:That's one interpretation

[MyLongNickName]

I thought a gluon was a derogatory term for a toupee.

"Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid"

[TCM]

Splendid, Mr. Data. Continue with your research. Dismissed.

Mmm...

[Fjornir]

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.