Astronomy Without A Telescope ? Home Made Quark-Gluon Soup

href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/QGPdiagram.jpg">class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-59557" src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/QGPdiagram-580x245.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="245" />The most powerful operational heavy-ion collider in the world, the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Heavy_Ion_Collider">Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) recently recorded the highest ever temperature created in an href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Earth-based laboratory of href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61E3OB20100215?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FscienceNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Science%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">4 trillion Kelvin. Achieved at the almost href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/physics/speed-of-light/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">speed of light collision of gold ions, this resulted in the temporary existence of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon_plasma">quark-gluon soup ? something first seen at about ten to the power of minus twelve of the first second after the href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/astronomy/big-bang/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">big bang.(...)
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