{"id":123383,"date":"2021-06-03T21:26:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/our-universes-earliest-state-of-matter-was-like-an-ocean-of-perfect-liquid"},"modified":"2021-06-03T21:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T04:26:42","slug":"our-universes-earliest-state-of-matter-was-like-an-ocean-of-perfect-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/our-universes-earliest-state-of-matter-was-like-an-ocean-of-perfect-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Our Universe\u2019s Earliest State of Matter Was Like an Ocean of Perfect Liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-universes-earliest-state-of-matter-was-like-an-ocean-of-perfect-liquid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smashing together lead particles at 99.9999991 percent the speed of light, scientists have recreated the first matter that appeared after the <a href=\" https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65700-big-bang-theory.html\">Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the wreck came a primordial type of matter known as quark-gluon plasma, or QGP. It only lasted a fraction of a second, but for the first time, scientists were able to probe the <a href=\" https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/54652-plasma.html\">plasma<\/a>\u2019s liquid-like characteristics \u2013 finding it to have less resistance to flow than any other known substance \u2013 and determine how it evolved in the first moments in the early Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing together lead particles at 99.9999991 percent the speed of light, scientists have recreated the first matter that appeared after the Big Bang. Out of the wreck came a primordial type of matter known as quark-gluon plasma, or QGP. It only lasted a fraction of a second, but for the first time, scientists were able [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}