A powerful particle accelerator in Switzerland may have briefly reproduced an ancient state of matter that pervaded the universe in the first microseconds after its birth, researchers have announced.
Nuclear shrapnel: More than 1,000 particles streak away from the collision of two lead nuclei at CERN’s SPS accelerator. A computer reconstructed the trajectories from detector readings. CERN Geneva
If confirmed, the findings from the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva indicate that scientists have glimpsed a substance governed by titanic effects called color forces.
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