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" When the Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, all matter as we know it went from a single point of near-infinite energy to an ever expanding tapestry of matter, anti-matter, dark matter, photons,\u00A0neutrinos, and more. In those early moments, the quark-gluon plasma\u00A0emerged, a kind of matter that can only be created at supremely dense and hot states unseen since the universe burst into existence. But now, the\u00A0Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island have recreated the quark-gluon plasma, briefly bringing back to life a state of matter rare in the universe today \u2013 if it exists at all. Three helium-3 atoms were smashed into a ionized gold atom, creating the energy.\u00A0 Traces have been detected before at the Large Hadron Collider, though this is the first time it&amp;#039;s been created with lighter isotopes. (Previous experiments yielded the quark-gluon by obliterating lead atoms with additional protons, breaking the bond enough to allow quark-gluon formation.) The quark-gluon &amp;quot;goo&amp;quot; appears to act as a frictionless liquid.\u00A0 Further experiments into the quark-gluon could provide clues to how the universe formed, and provide insight into how matter (or even anti-matter) formed. While it&amp;#039;s unlikely it could be yielded for any commercial purposes, it&amp;#039;s still amazing to think that we can harness the atom enough to turn a laboratory into a sort of time machine.         Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory via Discovery\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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