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Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter
Covalent writes "The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator and the 'Big Bang machine' that was used to discover what appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson particle (as announced July 4), may have another surprise up its sleeve this year: The LHC looks to have produced a new type of matter, according to a new analysis of particle collision data by scientists at MIT and Rice University. The new type of matter, which has yet to be verified, is theorized to be one of two possible forms: Either 'color-glass condensate' — a flattened nucleus transformed into a 'wall' of gluons, which are smaller binding subatomic particles, or it could be 'quark-gluon plasma,' a dense, soup or liquid-like collection of individual particles."
If you rub my Large Hadron, it will produce new matter too.
BTW Apple already patented this new type of matter so they will release a marginally thinner iPad 5 in January. Users will report a problem when the iPad's phase in and out of existence repeatedly.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
"MAY have discovered the Higgs-Boson"; "MAY have discovered new form of matter". "I MAY be writing this comment from the space station". Is this multi-billion dollar technological wonder ever going the actually discover anything definitively.