An molecule - bang called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ( RHIC ) has just snag a Guinness World Record for reachingthe hot man - made temperature ever—250,000 times hotter than the center of the Lord’s Day .
The face - melting temperature was achieved when gold nuclei — the part of the corpuscle made of protons and neutrons that has a positive charge — were localize zip around an clandestine racetrack near light speed until they slammed into one another . NASCAR for mote scientists , except instead of a champagne shower you ’re left with a schmaltzy admixture of quark and gluon .
This stew of subatomic particles formed a aboriginal plasm that scientist liken to the cloth that meet the existence just second after the Big Bang nearly 14 billion days ago . And it hit about 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit . If you cogitate last hebdomad was scorch , you would n’t require to be inside the RHIC . Because you would conk out . And it might not be very long until we see even more stewing temps — the Large Hadron Collider at Switzerland ’s CERN laboratory is expected to outflank the record very soon . [ LiveScience ]
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