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We model the the instability of the phase with unbroken color symmetry (”normal phase”) and the mechanism with which we would have the phase transition into the color superconducting/Higgs phase at strong coupling. We will study the transition both on a three-sphere and in flat-space. To ease the reader into the material, we start of with a discussion about phase transitions and bubble nucleation. We then move on to talk about subjects such as quantum field theory, string theory and the anti de-Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. 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