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#Particle collider creates rimordial gooof the early universe A quark-gluon plasma is the original state of the universe.
In general, it been assumed that any particle collider looking to create a sample of quark-gluon plasma would have to smash together very heavy atomic nuclei.
and the RHIC itself, have created both quark-gluon plasmas in the past, by making incredibly violent collisions between heavy atoms like lead or gold.
What this particular RHIC experiment did was to create a quark-gluon plasma by colliding a the nucleus of a helium-3 atom with an atom of gold
The ability to create an ever wider array of samples of quark-gluon plasma will be important, not because the plasma itself will ever be long-lived enough to be useful,
So, as interesting as it is that smaller collisions can create smaller, more localized droplets of quark-gluon plasma
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