{"id":153020,"date":"2022-12-17T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/unexpected-findings-in-little-big-bang-experiment-leaves-physicists-baffled"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:22:37","slug":"unexpected-findings-in-little-big-bang-experiment-leaves-physicists-baffled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/unexpected-findings-in-little-big-bang-experiment-leaves-physicists-baffled","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Findings in \u201cLittle\u201d Big Bang Experiment Leaves Physicists Baffled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpected-findings-in-little-big-bang-experiment-leaves-physicists-baffled.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A temperature not seen since the first microsecond of the birth of the universe has been recreated by scientists, and they discovered that the event did not unfold quite the way they expected. The interaction of energy, matter, and the strong nuclear force in the ultra-hot experiments conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was thought to be well understood. However, a detailed investigation has revealed that physicists are missing something in their model of how the universe works. A recent paper detailing the findings appears in the journal <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the things you weren\u2019t expecting that are really trying to tell you something in science,\u201d says Steven Manly, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and co-author of the paper. \u201cThe basic nature of the interactions within the hot, dense medium, or at least the manifestation of it, changes depending on the angle at which it\u2019s viewed. We don\u2019t know why. We\u2019ve been handed some new pieces to the puzzle and we\u2019re just trying to figure out how this new picture fits together.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey said, \u2018This can\u2019t be. You\u2019re violating boost invariance.\u2019 But we\u2019ve gone over our results for more than a year, and it checks out.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A temperature not seen since the first microsecond of the birth of the universe has been recreated by scientists, and they discovered that the event did not unfold quite the way they expected. The interaction of energy, matter, and the strong nuclear force in the ultra-hot experiments conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153020","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\/153020","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}