‘Start of the Universe’: mini Big Bang recreated

Richard Alleyne
Telegraph
November 8, 2010

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Colliding particles of lead at each other at close to the speed of light, they produced heat a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun – temperatures close to those generated at the beginning of time.

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The series of “mini-Big Bangs” were so powerful, scientists were hopeful they would cause sub-atomic particles to “melt” into their most basic ingredients and bring researchers closer to finding the fundamental building blocks of the Universe.

It was hoped the resulting hot dense “soup” would also prove the existence of a whole new state of matter known as the Quark Gluon Plasma.

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This article was posted: Monday, November 8, 2010 at 12:27 pm

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