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Taking the temperature of the Big Bang + milliseconds
At the right temperature protons and neutrons ‘melt’ to become a plasma of their constituent particles: quarks and gluons. New experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have now determined that the temperature at which quark-gluon plasma (QGP) forms is approximately 4 trillion degrees [...]
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Looking at the strange face of antimatter