Hottest Temperature Ever Heads Science to Big Bang

Scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory collided two gold nuclei with enough energy to briefly break laws of physics and reached an unbelievable temperature of 4 trillion degrees Celsius. This experiment proved a theory about what  physicists has suspected happend microseconds after after universe was formed.

The collision was made in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The collider has been operating on Long Island since 2000, and physicists there have done many experiments by accelerating gold nuclei in 2.4 mile long ring to about 99,995 percent of the speed of light and colliding them. Such collisions cause quarks and gluons to free from neutron and protons.

On Monday, scientist discussed their results in Washington at a meeting of the American Physical Society. They announced their success in measuring the temperature of the quark-gluon plasma, which is 4 trillion degrees Celsius. This is 250,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun and it is the hottest temperature ever made.
I think that suprises like that one will become more common. Especially since the recent opening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland, which is currently the biggest one in the world. Physicists will be soon able to prove their predictions on how universe was formed, as more experiments are made. There are many doubts about LHC and its safty. Some belive that antimatter can be formed and that it is dangerous. In my opinion, colliders are helpful scientific instruments and will soon reveal many mysteries of nature.

Source: NY times article