Unveiling the Secrets of the Universe's Earliest Moments
Physicists at Eötvös Loránd University are using advanced particle accelerators to study the transformation of quark matter into ordinary matter in the early Universe, shedding light on fundamental physics and the strong interaction. Their research involves mapping the "primordial soup" that existed in the Universe's first microseconds and has revealed similarities between quark matter and phenomena such as climate change and stock market fluctuations. By employing femtoscopy techniques, the researchers have gained a comprehensive understanding of the geometry of quark matter, with implications for our understanding of the strong interaction and the phases of quark matter.
