Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid
ever made in the lab.
That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent
experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues
at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle
collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics
(CERN) in Switzerland. Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from
the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approaching the
speed of light.