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Matter Just Matters: What exactly is plasma? More specifically what is Quark Gluon Plasma, how does it work?

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Matter Just Matters: What exactly is plasma? More specifically, what is Quark-Gluon Plasma? How does it work? By: Ian Davis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction: So my significant other made a mistake by saying that I was the hottest thing in the universe, wrong, just wrong; I remember this article saying that the hottest thing in the universe that we have observed was this special reaction in the chamber at CERN's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory where they managed to discover a type of matter called Quark-Gluon Plasma that can exist at 4-6 trillion degrees Celsius by smashing gold particles which created a 7-10 trillion degrees Fahrenheit reaction (~4 trillion degrees Celsius, which is hotter than a supernova explosion), which is just an astounding achievement for the human race as a whole. Nevertheless, what they created is truly the thing tha