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I'm struggling to get to grips with the idea that quarks cannot be observed as isolated particles due to confinement and yet existed as free particles during an early epoch after the big bang. Surely quarks aren't actually confined if they can exist at high enough energies.
In fact aren't these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark-gluon_plasma
observations of free quarks? How is confinement being violated in these cases?
In fact aren't these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark-gluon_plasma
observations of free quarks? How is confinement being violated in these cases?