re: We may get all our answers in the next year or two
Colliders are cool. I heard that when they started crashing gold ions together at uber high temperatures, the resulting particles behaved pretty much like a perfect fluid. I don't recall where I read the article. I think it was off New Scientist off of the physics lab's web site.
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=05-38
Must have been RHIC. That sounds right. Above is a copy of the release. It was pretty sweet.
