CERN collides small nuclei,
Crafting a “Big Bang” flash,
Echoes of cosmos born.
Crafting a “Big Bang” flash,
Echoes of cosmos born.
Researchers at CERN have created microscopic versions of the early Universe by colliding surprisingly small atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The collisions produced quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot matter believed to have filled the cosmos shortly after the Big Bang. Even more intriguingly,…