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The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy - physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma


New research shows quarks create wakes as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, the material that existed during the first microseconds of the early universe. The findings could help physicists understand the earliest moments of the infant universe.

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