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Collider experiment reveals surprise about early universe particle soup

Original: A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the

A particle collider experiment has produced an unexpected finding about the quark-gluon plasma, the hot soup of particles that filled the universe just after the Big Bang. The result sheds light on how that plasma coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up ordinary matter today. Details were reported by Livescience, and physicists are discussing what the anomaly could mean for models of how matter formed.

Why now: A new collider result touches on the open question of how matter formed after the Big Bang, drawing wide scientific interest.

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• A particle collider experiment just revealed something unexpected about how the fiery soup of particles that filled the universe after the Big Bang coalesced into the protons and neutrons that make up matter today. https://www. livescience.com/physics-mathem… · fionnbharr · 5

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