Friday, May 19, 2006

Out into the Space, Are we???

A good news poping out in the nuclear/sub-nuclear science. Scientists working on the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Colloider) project at Brookhaven Labs at NY found few remarkable results while finding the "Lost Moments" _immediately_ after the "BIG BANG". Here is a short description about the experiment performed by them.

The Gold ions are accelarated at the rate of 0.9999 times the speed of light in two separate pathways and finally allowing them to go for a head-on collision. The particles splitted and splattered are observed and the changes are noted with micro-second precision.

The remarkable finding is that, at the horizon of collision, the particle gets ripped off all its constituents to form more fundamental particles. All Quarks are stripped and they collide and the group of nucleons thus collected at the horizon behave as though they are fluids with a property to change shape with a constrained motion.

The expected intuitive result is that the shattering might have caused those particles to have dynamics similar to that of gas atoms that blow up. But this new state of matter is really intriguing. This has opened new doors to further research and a new vision into the secrecy of "FIRST FEW MICROSECONDS" after the "BIG BANG".

Get the full news here: RHIC Center

Feeling good that we are proceeding to find the secret behind the evolution but only thing is that the assumptions that we had used to build this huge empire of thoughts/experiments should hold to be true at the end.

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