Little Big Bang Sheds Light On Srong Force

Scientists at the University of Rochester performed an experiment in which they accelerated gold ions to nearly the speed of light and slammed them together to create a "quark-gluon plasma". This would help them learn about the "strong force", which is a fundamental force of the universe, like gravity, only not as familiar because it operates on subatomic levels. What did they discover? Well basically that it doesn't work the way they thought it did. Apparently some principle called boost invariance is not correct. (For more articles investigate The Little Big Bang)

Now I don't really understand all this but I still think it's cool. You gotta be impressed by the engineering of these particle accelarators. Just reading about what they can do in these experiments is mind boggling. I also love the fact that the experiment destroyed some accepted principle and kind of sends them back to the drawing board. How much do we really know about the universe?