OK, that’s not really what it is, I just always wanted to have a reason to say that…
It’s the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven Lab–they may have re-created the quark-gluon plasma that is the basic matter that created the universe. They’re starting work to confirm (or not) their results:
Visiting the Big Bang
Apparently they’ve been in a race with CERN to see who gets to the quark-gluon first. Uh-oh, that sounds awfully familiar for some reason……
elmey