Cosmology: quark gluon plasma (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 01, 2020, 21:21 (1546 days ago) @ David Turell

In the very first microseconds of the universe:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200131114737.htm

"Physicists believe that in the Universe's first ten microseconds free quarks and gluons filled all of spacetime, forming a new phase of matter named 'quark-gluon plasma' (QGP). Experimental and theoretical work at CERN was instrumental in the discovery of this hot soup of primordial matter, which is recreated today in accelerator-based lab experiments. To discover QGP in such experiments, the observation of exotic 'strange' quarks is very important. If QGP is created, strangeness is readily produced through collisions between gluons."

Another explanation:

http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/gluon.cfm

"A millionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was an incredibly dense plasma, so hot that no nuclei nor even nuclear particles could exist. The plasma consisted of quarks, the particles that compose nucleons and some other elementary particles, and gluons, the massless particles that “carry” the force between quarks (See Nuclei Knockdown). Gluons are the particles that quarks exchange as they interact, or, in the language of modern physics, gluons “mediate” the strong force between quarks. Since quarks make up protons and neutrons, this leads to the force that holds protons and neutrons together in a nucleus.

"A plasma (see Plasma Power) is an ionized gas, like the matter in a spark or a lightning bolt. But unlike these plasmas, as its name implies, the abovementioned quark-gluon plasma is made of exotic particles. Moreover, the way that quarks and gluons interact is unlike any other particles—at low temperatures and densities, they attract each other more strongly as they are separated, which explains why free quarks are not found in nature."

Comment: Plasma is like a soup. To form an organized universe, something has to guide it. Designer required.