“ Under extremely high temperature and pressure conditions like planetary cores and stellar interior, normal matter behaves abnormally. It may be neither solid, liquid, gas, nor plasma, but even basic properties are barely understood in extreme conditions. We create such exotic matter in the laboratory and understand fundamental physics about how materials behave on the length and time scale of atomic and molecular motion.”

– Byoung-ick Cho
Associate Professor and HEDP Group Leader of Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS)