quantum soup

noun

The quark-gluon plasma which existed in the first millionth of a second of the universe.

Meanings

nounquantum soup (plural quantum soups)

plural quantum soups

  1. informalThe quark-gluon plasma which existed in the first millionth of a second of the universe.
  2. informalA Bose-Einstein condensate in which atoms cease to behave as separate entities at a temperature very close to absolute zero.
  3. informalThe linking of all matter and energy in the universe.
  4. informalA vacuum in quantum chromodynamics where all elementary particles have a probability of appearing.
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