A cosmological experiment sounds like an impossibility. Yet precisely such a feat is described in two complementary papers in this issue. Two groups, one based in Grenoble (page 332), the other in Helsinki (page 334), report on a pair of superfluid helium-3 experiments, devised to probe the dynamics of the cosmological phase transitions that are thought to have occurred a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
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