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The Early Universe Was a Vast Liquid Ocean, Scientists Say – Futurism
The matter created by the Big Bang may have behaved just like tap water.
Physicists used the worlds largest atom accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, to smash lead particles together at just shy of the speed of light in a bid to recreate the first matter created by the creation of the universe.
This primordial goo, called quark-gluon plasma (QGP), only appeared for a tiny fraction of a second 10 to the minus 23 seconds, to be precise but the scientists managed to get an unprecedented look.
What they found was surprising: the viscosity of the primordial…
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