Quark gluon plasma. What is that and why is it so interesting? 🤔 Shortly after the #BigBang, the Universe was filled with an astonishingly hot, dense soup made of all kinds of particles moving at near light speed. This mixture was dominated by quarks – fundamental bits of matter – and by gluons, carriers of the strong force. Every year, CERN physicists collide #HeavyIons to free quarks, recreating conditions that existed in the early #Universe just after the Big Bang. As this year’s heavy-ion r