13-01-2004, 18:30
ANNOUCMENT: The Republic of Evilgits Top Scientists have come up with a radical Statement;
Professor Kain steps to the podium, Yes the "Big Bang 'soup recipe' has been confirmed!
"A microsecond after the Big Bang, when the exploding fireball of the newborn Universe was only a few kilometres across, all matter existed in a special state.
The basic building blocks of matter - quarks and electrons - floated freely in an incredibly hot, dense soup. As the Universe grew and cooled, the quarks bound together into the protons and neutrons that abound today.
This is what we physicists think happened at the beginning of the Universe. To prove it, teams at particle accelerators all over the Region have been racing to recreate that primordial soup - called quark-gluon plasma.
Physicists at CERN, near the Capital, claimed to have seen signs of such a plasma after smashing lead ions into each other . But not everyone was convinced and the experiment closed before the researchers could follow up their results. Now teams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New Central on the East side, are claiming the prize."
I will now hand over to Professor D. Evil
"Is was done by Jet Quenching"
Our heavyweight equipment fires gold ions at one another, creating 10 times the energy thought to be needed to make the quark-gluon plasma. During the last run in 2003, all four of RHIC's detectors - STAR, PHENIX, BRAHMS and PHOBOS - saw a peculiar effect called jet quenching.
Normally, when two ions collide they scatter two jets of particles in opposite directions, rather like billiard balls. But in the gold-gold experiment, sometimes only one jet was picked up by the detectors. This matches what you would expect for a soup of free quarks - if a collision occurred near the edge of the plasma, one particle would be kicked loose while the other would be swallowed up by the plasma.
But theorists wondered if the missing jets could be to do with the high energy of the gold nuclei, rather than any new kind of matter. To prove their case, the teams ran the experiment again, this time colliding gold ions with smaller deuterium ions. Although the energy of the gold ions was the same as before, the overall energy was not high enough to make quark-gluon plasma."
"We are very proud of this and will be applying to the UN for Certain proposals."
THIS IS THE ANNOUNCMENT
Professor Kain steps to the podium, Yes the "Big Bang 'soup recipe' has been confirmed!
"A microsecond after the Big Bang, when the exploding fireball of the newborn Universe was only a few kilometres across, all matter existed in a special state.
The basic building blocks of matter - quarks and electrons - floated freely in an incredibly hot, dense soup. As the Universe grew and cooled, the quarks bound together into the protons and neutrons that abound today.
This is what we physicists think happened at the beginning of the Universe. To prove it, teams at particle accelerators all over the Region have been racing to recreate that primordial soup - called quark-gluon plasma.
Physicists at CERN, near the Capital, claimed to have seen signs of such a plasma after smashing lead ions into each other . But not everyone was convinced and the experiment closed before the researchers could follow up their results. Now teams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New Central on the East side, are claiming the prize."
I will now hand over to Professor D. Evil
"Is was done by Jet Quenching"
Our heavyweight equipment fires gold ions at one another, creating 10 times the energy thought to be needed to make the quark-gluon plasma. During the last run in 2003, all four of RHIC's detectors - STAR, PHENIX, BRAHMS and PHOBOS - saw a peculiar effect called jet quenching.
Normally, when two ions collide they scatter two jets of particles in opposite directions, rather like billiard balls. But in the gold-gold experiment, sometimes only one jet was picked up by the detectors. This matches what you would expect for a soup of free quarks - if a collision occurred near the edge of the plasma, one particle would be kicked loose while the other would be swallowed up by the plasma.
But theorists wondered if the missing jets could be to do with the high energy of the gold nuclei, rather than any new kind of matter. To prove their case, the teams ran the experiment again, this time colliding gold ions with smaller deuterium ions. Although the energy of the gold ions was the same as before, the overall energy was not high enough to make quark-gluon plasma."
"We are very proud of this and will be applying to the UN for Certain proposals."
THIS IS THE ANNOUNCMENT