Big Bang Scientists Get Dense More than 700 scientists convened last week at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Stony Brook NY, the site of the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Accelerator, to discuss its preliminary success in creating the highest density of matter ever made. The point of producing such exotic matter composed of pure quarks held together by gluons is to approach on a small scale the conditions in the universe microseconds after it came into existence in the Big Bang, “an explosion from a single point of nearly infinite energy density.” Wired [Is anyone wondering: if they can get back all the way to the singularity, any chance they could create a new universe, microscopic or otherwise? What effects might that have on our own,”inside” which it was created?]