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Particle Physics & The Big Bang

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Physics. Spherical electrons, gravitons, banes, super-symmetry. Standard Model of Particle Physics.

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HBT Puzzle may mean Big Bang Model May Need Tweaking. HBT Puzzle may mean Big Bang Model May Need Tweaking Well, It does seem that the physics people can get temperatures that are near the early stages of our universe.

HBT Puzzle may mean Big Bang Model May Need Tweaking

However the results tend to be more unstable (explosive) then expected calling in the need for a new theory. Currently they call this the “HBT puzzle” because they are considering all sorts of possibilities to why the results are so explosive: what are they actually making? Is the equipment at fault? Does the theory need re-tuning? Shortened URL to this article: HBT Puzzle may mean Big Bang Model May Need Tweaking , Like this: Like Loading... Can Strange Matter Attack Me in the Street?" Could strange matter be on Earth now?

Can Strange Matter Attack Me in the Street?"

Physicists have considered it. They've sampled our water and other matter, finding nothing. They've considered the possibility of creating strange matter in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, since it could slam atomic nuclei together hard enough to knock the quarks out of the atoms and potentially convert some of them to strange quarks. But safety reviewers concluded that particle accelerators create so much heat that they would melt potential strangelets. The likelihood of creating strange matter in a particle accelerator would be as low as making "an ice cube in a furnace," the reviewers concluded [source: Ellis].

Strange Matter “May” eat up the entire universe. Summary of entire document There are many scenarios of how our universe will end it’s life.

Strange Matter “May” eat up the entire universe

I’m sure you have heard of a number of them: the big crunch as all the universe matter collapses to a single pointthe big cold freeze where our universe expands forever and all the suns run out of fuel and all the lights in the universe go out. Well scientists now have now looked at how our world here on earth might end, due to a laboratory accidentally creating strange-matter. Is it possible that strange-matter could end up eating the entire earth? Interestingly enough, The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an instrument which is mounted on the International Space Station, could detect strangelets: assuming that strangelets do fly around the universe. CERN will also be generating strangelets that could potentially result in the formation of strange-matter. Quark (strange) Stars: What if there was a thing called “strange matter b” could slowly eat away our universe? Timeline: the end of the universe. Early universe: Big Bang to 300 million years • The universe begins with a cataclysm that creates space and time, as well as all the matter and energy it will ever hold. • As the universe expands and cools, it becomes less dense, and the basic forces of nature become distinct: first gravity, then the strong force, which holds the nuclei of atoms together, followed by the weak and electromagnetic forces. • Fundamental particles and energy arise: quarks, electrons, photons, neutrinos and so on.

Timeline: the end of the universe

These smash together to form protons and neutrons. Earth. Earth has Ring Of Anti-Protons. Want to stay on top of all the space news?

Earth has Ring Of Anti-Protons

Follow @universetoday on Twitter PAMELA team and detector in Rome before launch. Photo courtesy of the PAMELA Experiment When it comes to planets with rings, we know the answer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But new findings from the PAMELA experiment show that Earth has a ring system, too… One made up of geomagnetically trapped cosmic ray antiprotons.

“The existence of a significant flux of antiprotons confined to Earth’s magnetosphere has been considered in several theoretical works.” says team leader, O. The PAMELA experiment – short for Payload for Antimatter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics – is based on an international collaboration involving about 100 physicists. From its subdetectors, PAMELA dished up a serving of antiprotons, but it wasn’t an easy job. For 850 days, the detectors collected data and compared it against simulations. Original Story Source: Astrophysical Journal Newsletters. About Tammy Plotner. The Echo of Creation‬‏

Gravitational waves discovery

Spherical electrons, gravitons, banes, super-symmetry. Electrons are fantastically round, say British scientists. After three months of experiments in a basement laboratory in London, scientists can confirm – with more confidence than ever – that the electron is very, very round.

Electrons are fantastically round, say British scientists

In the most exquisite measurements yet, researchers declared the particle to be a perfect sphere to within one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimetre.

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