Modeling the Boiling Cauldron of the Universe
The early universe was less like a calm pond and more like a boiling cauldron. Matter flowed, collided, and swirled against the backdrop of rapid spatial expansion. To understand how stars and galaxies emerged from this hot soup, physicists build digital simulations.
This new work is the third part in a series on lattice-based cosmological modeling. The first two focused on fields; this one deals with fluids.