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"Spooky" Matter Found
[q]Recent experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland —the same famous facility that discovered the elusive Higgs boson earlier this year— may have discovered a new type of matter in which particles seemingly interact without any direct connection with each other: "color-glass condensate."
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'Spooky action'
Venugopalan said that this correlation may be due to quantum mechanics: "This 'quantum entanglement' explains how the particles that fly away from the collision can share information such as direction of flight path."
The correlation is “a very tiny effect, but it’s pointing to something very fundamental about how quarks and gluons are arranged spatially within a proton,” he added.
Quantum entanglement happens when particles that were initially connected continue to behave as if they are still interacting with each other even after they have been separated.
The phenomenon was so startling that Albert Einstein famously dubbed it "spooky action at a distance."[/q]
"Refining our understanding of how quarks and gluons behave within protons will improve our understanding of the building blocks of all matter, and how it behaved right after the Big Bang."
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