Hottest, Densest Matter Ever Observed 73
meitsjustme writes "Experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have created the hottest, densest matter ever observed, recreating conditions a fraction of a second after the birth of the universe, scientists announced today."
I doubt it (Score:3, Funny)
Inside SCO attorney's heads (Score:1, Funny)
Hottest densest matter?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hottest densest matter?? (Score:1)
Natalie Portman IN a bowl of hot grits???
Surely... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Message paid for by Democratic National Committ (Score:2)
Uh, no. I'm an Australian citizen, and thus not qualified to vote in US elections.
LOL!!!! (Score:1)
Re:Surely... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Surely... (Score:3, Funny)
This is purely hypothetical, of course.
It hasn't ever actually been observed.
Re:Surely... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't like him very much either.
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Dupe (Score:1, Troll)
Closing In On The Quark-Gluon Plasma [slashdot.org]
They apparently haven't seen... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They apparently haven't seen... (Score:1)
Previous Most Dense Mass: (Score:2, Funny)
How Much, How Hot? (Score:5, Insightful)
The linked article is kind of high-level and sketchy on details. Some questions come to mind:
Maybe someone knows a URL for the 3 preprint PDFs going to Phys Rev Lett?
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:3, Funny)
MY question is how does a post that ONLY asks questions get modded "informative?"
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:2)
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:5, Insightful)
One doesn't. If one were able to, it would almost certainly destroy what's here right now. What one does is duplicate "conditions a fraction of a second after the birth of the universe."
Which is an entirely different situation. It is merely duplicating in a small bit of matter the state of all matter that existed at the time, a soup of all the stuff that makes particles.
I'd say you were being too literal, except nowhere before your statement did I see any mention of someone duplicating the creation of the universe. Thus, I'd have to say you're reading a little much into the initial statement.
d00d! (Score:1)
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:4, Informative)
STAR paper [arxiv.org]
PHENIX paper [arxiv.org]
Re:How Much, How Hot? (Score:5, Informative)
* I think it's 200 GeV/nucleon.
* I believe that the volume is the same order of magnitude of the nucleus itself -- probably a few times larger than a nucleus.
* I don't know. A very short time, no doubt.
* It decayed by condensing into ordinary hadrons, just as steam condenses into liquid water. Lots of energy was shed by the creation of extra matter.
* Between condensation and mass-energy conversion, you get ordinary matter -- baryons, mesons, leptons, and the force carriers. (And, presumbably, other beyond-SM particles that we don't know about yet.)
This sounds so familiar.... (Score:1, Redundant)
This definitely reminds me of a blonde chick I once knew....
<ducks>Tee hee... (Score:1)
May the blonde jokes commence!
a REPEAT (Score:3, Informative)
Re:a REPEAT (Score:2)
Re:a REPEAT (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:a REPEAT (Score:2)
He was joking around.
Densest dupe plasma ever observed (Score:2, Funny)
"We duplicate an article, boost the hype up to about the level of Iraqi WMD propaganda, and fire it at our readers". The community then injects a steady stream of complaints, boosting the tedium to mind-numbing level
Tomorrow. (Score:2, Funny)
BLeh
Re:Tomorrow. (Score:2)
The hottest, densest matter in the universe... (Score:1, Funny)
I hear they're hiring too... (Score:3, Funny)
Fusion? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Fusion? (Score:1)
Disclaimer: I've been out of grad school way too long. So... hydrogen fusion occurs at "relatively" lower temperatures and pressures than in this quark experiment. The H-bomb uses heat and pressure (usually from a 'wrap' of fission bomb) to force protons and neutrons thru the repulsive barrier and create Hel
Re:Fusion? (Score:2)
Re:Fusion? (Score:1)
I mention iron because when a star runs out of fuel, the star collapses until it has enough pressure and temperature to start the next fusion process, each one from the hydrogen->helium stage requireing more heat and pressure to maintain. Quite a
This is kind of a repeat (Score:1)
I am so sick and tired... (Score:3, Funny)
Dangerous? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Dangerous? (Score:1)
This is the last post in in slashdot!
Re:Dangerous? (Score:1)
First of all, "they" were never sloppy. Commercial mfrs of watches were sloppy: they painted radium on watch faces and got the goo all over themselves. The nuclear researchers took all precautions they could think of, and those in the Curie timeframe simply didn't imagine radiation was going to whack them.
Now, on to the black hole question: there wer
Re:Dangerous? (Score:1)
Re:Dangerous? (Score:1)
Hottest, densest material? (Score:2, Funny)
Drink a case of beer then eat a ton of taco bell.
Have the scientests come to your bathroom the next morning.
Universe afterbirth? (Score:2)
Hopefully they aren't gunning for "Universe Conception" or we're all fscked.
Ok, yeah I'm bored senseless today.
You know... we are all screwed.. (Score:1)
It'll go somethin like this..
Scientist at Black Mesa - "Hemmmm, I wonder if I tweak this and try to fuse these two quarks togeth.." *****BOOOOOOM****** **SHWOOOOOSH*** BILLIONS OF GALAXIES destroyed i