RHIC was initially the only machine in the world capable of re-creating the environmental conditions and temperature adjustments in which matter can rapidly change forms, just
like in the microseconds following the Big Bang.
Not exact matches
At RHIC, scientists from around the world study what the universe may have looked
like in the first
microseconds after its birth, helping us to understand more about why the physical world works the way it does — from the smallest particles to the largest stars.
Occasionally the film cuts to a blurred image of what appears to be Pullman shaking his head and screaming, to me looking
like Pullman
in the electric chair, apparently referencing Ambrose Bierce's famous short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
in which a convict about to be hanged imagines an entire last minute escape and flight home
in the
microseconds before his death.
The changes
in LOD are probably something
like microseconds per year, which makes the idea that it affects climate laughable.
But, 1) it should not be addressed with malice, which it sometimes sounds
like, and 2) particular care of the transients need to be a factor: good board design can make a CPU hum, but if transients are not considered the wrong change can blow up a CPU
in a
microsecond.