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The early universe was like a liquid...

23:00 / 20.04.05

...The high-energy collisions prised open the nuclei to reveal their most basic particles, known as quarks and gluons.

The researchers, at the US Brookhaven National Laboratory, say these particles were seen to behave as an almost perfect "liquid".

The work is expected to help scientists explain the conditions that existed just milliseconds after the Big Bang....

from the BBC

Can you say 'Magic Mirror', lol! I just wonder with these collision experiments, if they replicate the conditions of a big bang to well, will they cause a big bang and overwrite our universe? Sorta like reformating the harddisk?

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00:40 / 21.04.05

will they cause a big bang to start over? no.

the conditions we see in earth-bound experiments like this really don't get anywhere near the freaky energy levels seen in astronomical objects. so if a big bang is going to be triggered by something so mild it's the work of puny humans then it would already have happened many times over in supernovae, active galactic nuclei, quasars, etc etc.

All Acting Regiment

11:14 / 21.04.05

This brings to mind two things:

1) Wasn't there something about the universe being a solid moving through time (a liquid) in The Invisibles?

2) Does this discovery that the thread's about mean that the universe has become *less* like a liquid as time's gone by, in the same way that in PK Dick the universe was becoming better but actually appeared to be becoming more corrupt because we were experiencing time backwards?