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Sexy Beast

Sexy Beast

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Do you know what's a big number? Well 4,000,000,000,000 is a big number.

What's the point of this exercise you might ask?

Well:

Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference ?atom smasher? at the U.S. Department of Energy?s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius ? the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, about 250,000* times hotter than the center of the Sun. This temperature, based upon measurements by the PHENIX collaboration at RHIC, is higher than the temperature needed to melt protons and neutrons into a plasma of quarks and gluons. Details of the findings will be published in Physical Review Letters.

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Source: http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/news2/news.asp?a=1074&t=pr
 
Crazier still:

Until the LHC finally gets up to full speed, Brookhaven National Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) remains the world's most powerful heavy ion smasher. And on Monday, they showed off some of that power by announcing that a recent collision resulted in the hottest matter ever recorded. Coming in at a scorching 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, the plasma not only recreated the environment of the Big Bang, but might have also resulted in the temporary formation of a bubble within which some normal laws of physics did not apply.

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These results are still controversial, and have not been independently verified with other experiments. In fact, the RHIC researchers were so astonished by their findings that they spent an entire year trying to formulate alternative explanations for their data before publishing their results.

However, if these results are vindicated, the bubbles seem to hint that the laws of physics are not fixed across all space, and could change depending on size and temperature. By better understanding how the laws of physics shifted as the universe cooled and expanded, this could begin to explain a number of questions about the nature of the universe that remain a mystery.

Source: http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...rillion-degrees-fahrenheit-quark-gluon-plasma

So basically they might have ripped a hole in space and time....hell yeah.
 
science has been awesome way before they invented super-colliders
 
First of all, it sounds cool and all, but....Will this help them create a machine like in Star Trek, that just creates any food i ask for?
 
No sticky, when they start talking about Matter Conversion then we will be getting that *free* food stuffs :)
 
Thats pretty awesome stuff there Beast...Good thing a Manbearpig didnt come outa that hole though...we woulda been doomed :)
 
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