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Particle physicists are on the brink of a fabulous new discovery about the birth of the universe.
There's just one catch: They're not sure what it is. It could be the same discovery they've sought for two decades -- an eerie entity called the "quark-gluon plasma," the hypothetical mother of all cosmic matter. Or it could be something radically different, something so strange they can't even precisely define it. [Continued]
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/19/MNG3G4CAMF1.DTL