Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Hot enough to warm a Republican's heart


Of course if you are trying to bring something up from absolute zero you are going to need more than 7.2 trillion degrees even if you did use pure gold to achieve it.
“RHIC first collided gold ions at its full energy capacity in July 2001,” wrote Brookhaven physicist Paul Sorensen in an email to TPM. “That would be the first time that record setting temperature was ever achieved. The later dates reflect the long process that was required to actually ascertain what the temperature was. For that reason, the date when an analysis finally was able to determine the temperature can be somewhat ambiguous.”

“We have actually been producing such high temperature events for the past decade at RHIC,” added nuclear physicist Gene Van Buren, also via email.

In fact, even though the official record was hit back in 2001, there’s a high probability that 2.4-mile underground ring that makes up the RHIC produced an even hotter temperature by a few degrees in April of this year by colliding heavier uranium nuclei (the centers of uranium atoms).

“Uranium nuclei are shaped like American footballs so when they collide tip-on-tip, they can create an energy density that is larger than with gold collisions,” explained Sorensen. “It will take some time however to actually ascertain what the temperature was for those Uranium collisions.”
Still no Higgs Bos'uns Mate but perhaps if they collided two of the densest elements on earth, Republican brains, they might get what they are looking for.

// posted by montag @ 5:23 PM
Comments:
... Republican brains ...

Those are so dense, I'd be afraid they'd form a singularity and suck up everythign on Earth.
# posted by Blogger Fixer : 6:59 AM
 

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