‘We’re Close to Finding Einstein’s Missing Phase of Matter’
25 September 2019
15:00
Dat ‘we’re close to’ blijft in de praktijk vaak ‘manyana’, maar soit.
Physicists are shooting high-energy protons past each other in an effort to unlock the secrets of the universe. These experiments, they say, have revealed insight into a theorized state of matter called color glass condensate—first predicted in Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity—and have revealed secrets about the activity of gluons within high energy protons.