n a picture taken of two gold
nuclei in an ultrahigh-energy collision at the Brookhaven National
Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) there are thousands
of particles streaming out. This is believed to be what the
"Big Bang" may have looked like a few microseconds after it
occurred.
Detailed information is presented in the May 2006 issue
of Scientific American in an article entitled "The First Few
Microseconds" by Michael Riordan and William A. Zajc.
