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The early universe was an extremely dense and superhot liquid, according to the surprise first findings of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
The experiment to probe the early moments of the universe started up on 7 November, smashing together the nuclei of lead atoms inside the LHC's circular tunnel to produce incredibly dense and hot fireballs of subatomic particles at over 10 trillion °C. The idea behind ALICE is to recreate the exotic, primordial "soup of particles" known as quark-gluon plasma that appeared microseconds after the universe's birth. Gluons and quarks went on to become the constitutive "bricks" of neutrons and protons inside atomic nuclei.
Link: Early universe recreated in LHC was superhot liquid
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