Why Does Quark Matter Matter?
The history of modern technological development can be viewed as a series of probings, with ever increasing resolution, into the microscopic structure of matter. Since the days of the early Greek philosophers, when the question of the indivisibility of matter was first examined, science has been on a continual quest to find the smallest piece the most fundamental building block forming the substance of the universe. During that journey, many beautiful and exotic properties of the subatomic world have been discovered: elusive particles with wave-like properties the ultimate position of which can never be known; particles of light that deliver a fixed amount of energy when they impact the atoms of a materials surface; particles in some types of electrical conductors that pair in a unique way because of intrinsic spin so that, below a certain temperature, all resistance goes to zero. Knowledge of these and many other wonderful properties discovered in the last century in the process of st
