Scientists Recreate the Big Bang Inside a Giant Science Machine!

By smashing tiny particles together at nearly the speed of light, clever thinkers have cooked up a miniature version of the super-hot soup that made our entire universe. This glowing cosmic soup is called quark-gluon plasma [the liquid stuff that existed before stars or planets were even born]. Who knew that the secrets of our giant cosmos could be solved by looking at things too small to see?