This strange primordial stew was cooked up by boldly colliding lead particles traveling at 99.9999991% the speed of the light. For the first time, scientists were able to investigate the cosmic goo to penetrate the mysteries of its temporary liquid form.
Officially known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the characteristics of this weird matter barely lasted a fraction of a second, and scientists discovered that it displayed far less resistance to flow than any other substance known to humankind. Its existence replicates the method by which the QGP was born in the wee hours of the dawn of the universe.
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Smashing together lead particles at 99.9999991 percent the speed of light, scientists have recreated the first matter that appeared after the Big Bang.
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Most astronomers and scientists explain Big Bang as the beginning of our universe. It’s based on the idea that our universe started off as a single point which then expanded and stretched to become as big as it is now. Now, there are many mysteries around Big Bang and a
new study reveals what happened in the first microsecond of the Big Bang.
The study conducted by researchers from the University of Copenhagen gives us details about what happened to a specific kind of plasma, the first matter ever to be present, during the first microsecond of the Big Bang.