LHC generates a 'mini-Big Bang'

**CheeseSlice** · 8 November 2010, 16:59

Is anyone else experiencing a strange sensation as if the ground is slowly moving towards Geneva?

**Zippy** · 8 November 2010, 17:10

Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post

Is anyone else experiencing a strange sensation as if the ground is slowly moving towards Geneva?

Ask alreadypacked as she's nearest.

**TykeMerc** · 8 November 2010, 17:31

Originally posted by Zippy View Post

Ask alreadypacked as she's nearest.

Possibly quite a lot nearer now too

**thunderlizard** · 8 November 2010, 17:48

Isn't a "mini-big bang" just a "bang"?

**CheeseSlice** · 8 November 2010, 17:52

"This process took place in a safe, controlled environment, generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs with temperatures of over ten trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

"At these temperatures even protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms, melt resulting in a hot dense soup of quarks and gluons known as a quark-gluon plasma."

mmmmmmmmm.... quark and gluon soup

**Wodewick** · 8 November 2010, 18:10

Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

Isn't a "mini-big bang" just a "bang"?

Possibly a POP?

**RichardCranium** · 8 November 2010, 18:48

Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post

Isn't a "mini-big bang" just a "bang"?

Or a maxi bang?

LHC generates a 'mini-Big Bang'