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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."

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  1. Already covered this by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 0, Troll
    Please, this is such old news that it's already in my archives.

    Oh, OK, it's archives from yesterday, but I'll bet I'm the only person who put a California surfer accent to the story...

  2. Re:Of course! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right next to the part about Allah wants you to kill all non-Muslims, but before the part about all females are property.

    Not to mention the sun-parched pederast that drooled forth such an abonimably barbaric and hateful cult of death and insanity.

    I refuse to give any credence to horoscopes, chicken entrails, phrenology, or bloodthirsty silicate-strolling, toga-wearing atavists from the Dark Ages.

    Welcome to the 21st century. Please wipe your feet.

  3. Re:The Bible says so by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll
    So someone throws in an "alien" reference and it's "ok" but the "Bible reference" one get's modded as a off topic? What the fuck are the mods smoking?

    Fuck, I'm starting to hate slashbot more and more each day.

    --
    Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
  4. Re:In The Beginning by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 1, Troll

    So all scientific achievement can be reduced down to "Some magical all powerful being did it. And if you cock your head just right and squint while reading this book it will prove it."
    Cool!