Was the early universe a LIQUID?Atom smasher creates smallest ever droplets...

Was the early universe a LIQUID? Atom smasher creates smallest ever droplets... and gives clues about the primordial soup created by the Big Bang It might seem more of a philosophical question, but scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher have raised the question of how small a droplet of liquid can get before it becomes a gas. The researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, have created what they claim are the world's smallest droplets while conducting experiments to study what the early universe would have looked like. Scientists had been attempting to produce the primordial soup of subatomic particles that existed shortly after the Big Bang known as the quark-gluon plasma. QUARK-GLUON PLASMA Quarks and gluons are elemental particles that make up all other subatomic particles and the atoms they form. In the seconds after the Big Bang, the normally powerful forces that bind these subatomic particles together were weakened. This resulted in a substance known as the quark-gluon plasma - a strange soup of superheated material. But rather than behaving like a superheated gas as scientists might expect, it appears this primordial soup of particles was more of a liquid, according to research from the Large Hadron Collider. The tiny fireballs created inside the 17 mile long particle accelerator, which is buried 300ft beneath the Alpine foothills along the Swiss-French border, have enabled scientists to recreate some of the conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3262272/Was-early-universe-LIQUID-Big-Bang-Large-Hadron-Collider-creates-smallest-droplets.html