{"id":3927697,"date":"2026-08-27T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/oxygen-collisions-reveal-how-quark-gluon-matter-approaches-equilibrium\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:03:59","slug":"oxygen-collisions-reveal-how-quark-gluon-matter-approaches-equilibrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/oxygen-collisions-reveal-how-quark-gluon-matter-approaches-equilibrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen collisions reveal how quark\u2013gluon matter approaches equilibrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>High-energy nuclear collisions recreate extreme conditions similar to those in the early universe, producing quark\u2013gluon plasma (QGP), a hot state of matter in which quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside protons and neutrons. While large systems such as lead\u2013lead collisions can produce matter that behaves like a fluid, collective behavior has also been observed in smaller systems.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-oxygen-collisions-reveal-quarkgluon-approaches.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-energy nuclear collisions recreate extreme conditions similar to those in the early universe, producing quark\u2013gluon plasma (QGP), a hot state of matter in which quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside protons and neutrons. While large systems such as lead\u2013lead collisions can produce matter that behaves like a fluid, collective behavior has also been [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}