This is a new video released in February that discusses, new results announced from two separate groups of scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

First scientists worked to measure the temperature in the first instants of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma “soup.” They found that at that instant, the temperature is four trillion degrees if you can image that.

From International Science Grid This Week: "To put things in perspective, the temperature at the sun’s core is a mere 15 million degrees Kelvin, while the temperature at the core of a collapsed Type II supernova is only 100 billion degrees.

The second group of scientists discovered that, in the magnetic field induced by the accelerator’s colliding charged particles and the vortices that form in the resulting quark-gluon soup, positively charged quarks tend to move in one direction, and negatively charged quarks in the other. That makes it an example of asymmetry, an asymmetry that could give physicists clues as to why matter, rather than antimatter, is more dominant in our universe."

Discovered At: International Science Grid This Week

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