Hot Quark Soup Produced at RHIC

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, http://www.bnl.gov/rhic ) is a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator/collider that has been operating at Brookhaven Lab since 2000, delivering collisions of heavy ions, protons, and other particles to an international team of physicists investigating the basic structure and fundamental forces of matter. In 2005, RHIC physicists announced that the matter created in RHICs most energetic collisions behaves like a nearly perfect liquid in that it has extraordinarily low viscosity, or resistance to flow. Since then, the scientists have been taking a closer look at this remarkable form of matter, which last existed some 13 billion years ago, a mere fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Scientists have revelaed new findings, including the first measurement of temperature very early in the collision events, and their implications for the nature of this early-universe matter.

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[Eric Collazo]

I'm sorry but that's just ridiculous.

Science is the pursuit of truth about how the universe works (things not yet explained). Religion does not attempt to find truth, it fills in the blanks with ignorance and bigotry rooted in superstition.

[Marisa Lindsey]

no I really don't understand. Satan has nothing to do with antimatter. that's not even biblical. there isn't even the slightest suggestion in the bible that Satan will use antimatter or antiparticles in any way shape or form. your just making stuff up because you have a misunderstanding of some sort.

[imwritingtobecool]

Some people are not stupid but extraordinary restarted like the chomo in the comment section below

[schwarzfalk]

4 trillion degrees?!?

um...some1 explain why the lab didn't get vaporized? (how big was the volume heated to those temps?)

[xparade0de]

2012 Dec 21 Earth Sun Milkyway Center (giant black hole !) are in a line, (mars, venus, earth build a triangle, theire is a line possible between sun, venus, saturn. LHC is switched of, is the RHIC also switched of ? I think theire is a stronger possibility of the creation of micro black holes because of changes in the inner structures of protons - comming from this rare planet alignment.

[DoveDancing]

violation of symmetry is where its at!

[123tejas]

It is however non nonsensical and factually inaccurate, to make up statistics based on your personal opinion such as ''almost 99% of scientists are atheists''.

[123tejas]

They are factually accurate, evolution or not it is fact that they were religious. I used the catholic church as an example of an open minded side of religion. Science isn't about truth, its about discovery and the advancement of humanity. I'm actually kind of confused on what you mean by ''truth'', the truth is we don't know but are trying to find out. If you keep criticizing theistic beliefs nobody is going to learn anything. You just build a self image that ''were right and they're wrong!''

[Eric Collazo]

Additionally,

Religious people do lack scientific knowledge, if they didn't they would be atheists.

[Eric Collazo]

Your statements are not only non-sensical, they are factually inaccurate.

Almost 99% of scientists today are atheists. As for Newton and Galileo, they existed before evolution was discovered, they have an excuse.

The catholic church acknowledging evolution does not mitigate the plethora of nonsense that they propogate.

Faith has absolutely NO respect for truth, and truth requires NO faith. Truth is self-evident. Faith encourages people to not think critically.