Primordial Soup Confirmed: Quark-Gluon Plasma Flows Like a Liquid
TL;DR
Physicists analyzing LHC data from CERN used Z bosons as markers to track quarks moving through quark-gluon plasma, confirming that this primordial soup behaves like a liquid and creates wake patterns as it’s disturbed, a finding that supports long-standing theories about the early universe and provides new ways to study the properties of this exotic fluid.
Topics:sciencephysics-and-chemistry#early-universe#large-hadron-collider#physics-and-chemistry#quark-gluon-plasma#quarks#wake-effect
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