Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the Universe
Researchers have created what may be the tiniest droplets of fluid in the universe, in a primordial soup that's trillions of degrees and swishes around at nearly the speed of light.
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By smashing particles together, physicists may have created the smallest droplet of fluid in the universe — a proton-sized bead of hot, primordial soup.
This particle soup is quark-gluon plasma, the fluid that filled the cosmos during the first microseconds after the Big Bang. It's at trillions of degrees, and with hardly any friction, it swishes around at near the speed of light.
"It's the most extreme fluid that we know of," said Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, a theoretical physicist at Rutgers University in New Jersey. [5 Elusive Particles Beyond the Higgs]
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