Sunday, March 7, 2010

CERN's LHC's quark soup is not edible!

Within the next few months, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN (go figure), will create quark–gluon plasma soup at their particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider.
I know what you're thinking... what's the big deal, right? It's quark! I eat it all the time. Well imagine taking a bite from a quark soup that's more 200 thousand of times hotter than the core of the sun. You know how big that blister will be on your tongue? You wont be able to talk!

From Wikipedia, Quark–gluon plasma or quark soup is a phase of quantum chromodynamics which exists at extremely high temperature and/or density. In case you're wondering "WTF?", read on about quantum chromodynamics which will clear things up. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a theory of the strong interaction (color force), a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons (such as the proton, neutron or pion). Ah, right? It's not cheese! You can't buy it at your local grocery store, walmart, or make it on your own. It's made from colliding protons in huge detectors built to record it before it goes stale!

I know what you're thinking again "I like stale cheese,". Well, it's not cheese, I tell you! How many times do I have to write this to get it through your thick head! Like I stated above, it's so hot it will dissolve your spoon, but if you want to try, go ahead and see if I care. I wont be losing money on silverware! And if you're lucky enough to get a bite, well guess what Einstein, you'll die! DIE!

What am I talking about you ask? Well, no one at the LHC will allow you to get that close to those quarks anyway, or maybe they should so they can watch you go "POOF!" because you couldn't control your appetite. You had it coming!

* Scientists recreate Big Bang 'quark soup'