• Physicists just saw quarks make waves in the Big Bang's primordial soup

    From Jan Panteltje@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, October 06, 2026 13:36:45
    From:
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261004002556.htm

    Physicists just saw quarks make waves in the Big Bang?s primordial soup Scientists have watched speeding quarks create ripples in primordial matter, revealing just how liquid-like the early universe really was.
    Date:
    October 6, 2026
    Source:
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Summary:
    Physicists at CERN?s Large Hadron Collider have captured the clearest evidence
    yet that quark-gluon plasma, the scorching-hot matter that filled the newborn
    universe, behaves like a true liquid.
    By tracking individual quarks as they blasted through the plasma, researchers
    saw them leave behind ripples, splashes, and swirling wakes much like a duck
    moving through water.
    The finding suggests this primordial ?soup? is so dense that it can slow
    speeding quarks and respond collectively as a fluid.


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