April 18, 2005
- Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory announce that they have created a long sought after state of matter by smashing atoms in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Surprisingly, this new state of matter behaves like a hot and dense liquid made up of basic atomic particles such as quarks and gluons, and not like a gas as expected. Researchers claim that all matter in the universe for a fraction of a second after the Big Bang was in the form of this liquid. (BNL News)
Read more about this topic: April 2005 In Science
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