RHIC researchers to reveal "compelling new findings" about quark soup this coming monday. hardtolive.com/2010/02/quark-soups-on.html Any takers on what they'll have to say?
Hello easygenius Fermions are somewhat difficult to describe. LC, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Here is the link you gave us (you need 20 posts to provide links): http://www.hardtolive.com/2010/02/quark-soups-on.html I don’t see the announcement but from your blog I guess I could Google and find it. Are you going to update us? And this quote is from your description of Quark Soup Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!: “QGP can be basically described as melted atoms. Throw a couple gold atoms into a sauce pan, turn up the heat to 150,000 times hotter than the center of the sun and you get quark soup. The substance has captivated Brookhaven researchers for a decade because of its potential to reveal more about the beginning of the universe. Some scientists theorize that the Big Bang created a metric assload of QGP that promptly went flying all over the place. Eventually, all those subatomic particles congealed into the atoms of the matter that makes up the universe we know and love and barely understand today.” I will be interested in seeing the announcement. And BTW, Lawson’s Criterion looks like a sock puppet in case you didn’t know.
This was posted 2/15/2010 at AZoNano.com http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=15917 Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius - the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, about 250,000* times hotter than the center of the Sun.
I posted a thread last year on Bautforum concerning this very thing. "Does a fish know its in water?". ok so the title is a little campy, but it changed a lot of thinking and has possibly led to many of these recent discoveries concerning the 2nd law of thermodynamics. What RHIC found out quite by accident, according to the article I read on Physorg, is that quark gluon plasma is more like a liquid than a gas. To quote: “One of the main discoveries at RHIC is that the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions behaves as a perfect fluid with very small viscosity,” says Xin-Nian Wang, a senior scientist in the Nuclear Theory Group in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division (NSD). Wang is the co-spokesperson and project director of the JET Collaboration." The idea is that its a superfluid with very small particles as I understand it. Which agrees with my own ideas on the subject, concerning an ionic lattice.
