Hot stuff: Quark-gluon-plasma explained by black-hole-physics

Vienna (VUT). Particle physics is is seeing revolutionary developments. Baffling connections are emerging between the physics of gravitation and the physics of elementary particles. With completely new methods scientists begin to unravel the strange properties of extremely hot states of matter that are being produced in laboratories such as CERN near Geneva. At the Vienna University of Technology, Professor Anton Rebhan and his team are doing research on these topics, and he succeeded in bringing a number of the brightest brains in this field to a conference in Vienna. Tiny particles, huge theories Usually, the physics of elementary particles is formulated in terms of quantum field theories. In these theories, particles are pointlike objects, and at the same time they are described by oscillating fields permeating all of space.