Wired August 30, 2026 • 09:00

Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe’s Origins - WIRED

By Jorge Garay

The discovery redefines how large atoms need to be to produce the extreme state of matter found in the early universe.

In the very first moments of the universe, matter didnt exist as we know today. A millionth of a second or so after the big bang, the universe was a dense, hot soup scientists call quark-gluon plasma… [+2616 chars]

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Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe’s Origins - WIRED

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