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Click for video: This artist’s conception shows two gold ions blasting into each
other in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, leaving behind a spray of particles that includes quark-gluon plasma. Such conditions naturally existed in the universe a microsecond after the big bang. Click on the image to watch a YouTube video.
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Scientists say the tiny bubbles of plasma they’ve created in a “big bang machine” are the hottest dollops of soup ever seen in the universe, reaching temperatures of several trillion degrees.
What’s more, the weird properties of that soup may help scientists create a new breed of electronic devices – and figure out why the universe didn’t blow itself up as soon as it came into being.
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