<i>The matter in the earliest moment of the Universe was most likely in the form of quark-gluon plasma. New research now confirms that this substance isn’t like gas as we initially thought but more like a liquid.</i>
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The Universe is about 13,800,000,000 years old. Yet, cosmologists are very interested in its very first moments during which the singularity of the Big Bang was changing into something we can at least attempt to understand. We think we know what was happening back then at least a bit but the details and possibly many significant things are still mysterious.
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You Zhou from the Danish Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues studied quark-gluon plasma that seems to have been the only type of matter that existed during the first microsecond of the Universe. Just a few moments later the quark-gluon plasma vanished because the Universe expanded and gave birth to hadrons and other particles which now make up our Universe.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN managed to recreate quark-gluon plasma after the long 13.8 billion years so we could study the oldest known understandable form of matter in the Universe. As Zhou says, the quark-gluon plasma at LHC is made during extreme particle collisions allowing us to observe its evolution in time similarly to how it evolved after the Big Bang.
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Apart from happily using the currently most expensive scientific device on Earth Zhou and his colleagues developed an advanced algorithm to analyze the LHC’s particle collisions. Their results confirm that the original quark-gluon plasma was liquid in form and compared to other known states of matter it constantly changed its shape.
These facts are quite different compared to the initial ideas about quark-gluon plasma. Back in the day, we thought it was gaseous. But research shows the substance has more of a smooth and soft texture similar to water. And the changes in shape are also quite surprising as nobody expected them. The results of the research will hopefully help us understand the puzzle of the Big Bang which still remains one of the biggest mysteries of modern times.
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* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932100294X?via%3Dihub
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