Heck yeah!
Posted on 02/15/2010 8:07:54 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe.
They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.
But that is enough to give physicists fodder for years of study that they hope will help them understand why and how the universe formed.
"That temperature is hot enough to melt protons and neutrons," Brookhaven's Steven Vigdor told a news conference at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington on Monday.
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Man-made warming I can believe in.
New snow removal tool?
If you average in that 4 trillion degrees with the temperature of 1,000 other places on Earth, you can see that the average temperature of the Earth increased by 4 billion degrees.
Bazinga!
Milliseconds ??? You might as well say they lasted only for centuries.
OK, now somebody tell me they actually did last for milliseconds. What do I know?
When I read things like that I wonder if these people just make stuff up to get grants.
GET OUT OF THE BALL PIT!
“That temperature is hot enough to melt protons and neutrons,”
I’m not sure “melt” is the right word in this context.
Wow! That’s even hotter than the center of the Earth. /Algore mode
It's probably safe to say that the concept is being dumbed dow...um, simplified, for the masses.
“Bereshith bara Elohim...”
So hot you could fry an egg on the cyclotron.
I got the feeling that the author didn’t have a clue regarding the subject to which she had been assigned. The way she was throwing around terms like “millisecond” and “microsecond” - I’m not certain if she knew that these words have actual, unambiguously defined meanings.
Heck yeah!
>>I got the feeling that the author didn’t have a clue regarding the subject to which she had been assigned. The way she was throwing around terms like “millisecond” and “microsecond” - I’m not certain if she knew that these words have actual, unambiguously defined meanings.<<
Let’s toss “picosecond” out there and see how she reacts...
Had to google that. I recognized the word "Elohim", but not the rest.
Amen!
In the beginning God.......
“It’s probably safe to say that the concept is being dumbed dow...um, simplified, for the masses.”
I guess they pushed simplification a little harder than I would have. “Flies apart into little tiny pieces” would maybe be closer, if still misleading. “And then something really weird happens that we only understand a little . . . “ might be even closer.
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