“Oh, I got plenty o’ nuthin’, an’ nuthin’s plenty for me…”. —”Porgy and Bess” George Gershwin, 1935
Particles erupt out of empty space after heat from a computer-simulated, gold-gold nuclear collision destroys the vacuum’s unseen structure. Brookhaven National LaboratoryDebris from a nuclear smashup hurtles through the core (outline) of a detector that hugs a section of beam tube where nuclei collide.
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