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    Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

    by Charlie Wood Aug 02, 2019 4 minutes

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.

    Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging neutron stars.Jan Michael Hosan

    gold wedding band will melt at around 1,000 degrees Celsius and vaporize at about 2,800 degrees, but these changes are just the beginning of what can happen to matter. Crank up the temperature to trillions of degrees, and particles deep inside the atoms start to shift into new, non-atomic configurations. Physicists seek to map out these exotic states—which probably occurred during the Big Bang, and are believed to arise in neutron star collisions and powerful cosmic ray impacts—for the insight they provide into the cosmos’s most intense

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