How cosmic events give insight into fundamental properties of matter
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
The option to measure the gravitational waves of two merging neutron stars has offered the chance to answer some of the fundamental questions about the structure of matter. At the extremely high temperatures and densities in the merger scientists conjecture a phase-transition where neutrons dissolve into their constituents: quarks and gluons.