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What is a quark gluon plasma?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Break a Proton Into Protons

In order to break up the proton into its bits, you need to get up to trillions of degrees calvin. A quork gluon plasma is like a gas, but it's not neutral in the strong force. You're saying, like, heat things up and things are moving and crashing into each other so crazily that it actually breaks open the protons. That would just be a plasma.

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