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Title: Rick creates hot soup
Post by: MarkS on Feb 15, 2010, 23:43:04

No, this is not a Deep Sky Camp story!

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, (pronounced "Rick") accelerated gold ions in a 2.4-mile-round magnetic ring and smashed them together at nearly the speed of light to create to create a particle soup reaching temperatures of several trillion degrees.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/15/2202227.aspx

Title: Re: Rick creates hot soup
Post by: Mike on Feb 15, 2010, 23:50:40

What flavour is it?

Title: Re: Rick creates hot soup
Post by: Ian on Feb 16, 2010, 17:14:38

and there was me thinking, another DSC, another Insanity Hot Sauce story coming up...

Title: Re: Rick creates hot soup
Post by: Mike on Feb 16, 2010, 17:47:42

Asda are selling a hot chilli and garlic sauce called "Holy Cow".

Title: Re: Rick creates hot soup
Post by: RobertM on Feb 16, 2010, 20:30:13

If that sauce is hotter than 4 Trillion degrees C then I'm not going anywhere near it :o

Title: Re: Rick creates hot soup
Post by: Mike on Feb 16, 2010, 22:44:35

I doubt it is literally but I am sure it feels like it :D

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