Geneva - For the first time, physicists have created a new form of matter by recreating the conditions thought to have existed 10 microseconds after the Big Bang at the start of the universe, scientists have announced.
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) said scientists from more than 20 countries conducted a series of experiments which smashed together heavy lead ions in a fireball to prove a theory that had only existed on paper for years. They succeeded in isolating quarks from protons and neutrons, CERN said.