New experiments can re-create the early universe, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
A technician installs cables on the new sPHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Inside sPHENIX's cylindrical interior, atomic nuclei will collide to make droplets of a plasma that existed at the beginning of the cosmos. (Photograph by Christopher Payne)
