On the macroscopic level novel, and even universal, phenomena can emerge. The underlying loss of information makes these phenomena insensitive to microscopic details and thus renders them interesting for quantum simulations. I will present experimental studies with 87Rb spinor Bose-Einstein condensates obtained in the Oberthaler group in Heidelberg. Employing quantum quenches, we bring the system out of equilibrium and observe transient universal phenomena associated with the emergence of a non-thermal fixed point [1] and a suppression of the four-vertex at low momenta in the highly occupied regime [2]. We follow the system’s dynamics beyond the non-thermal fixed point and observe its approach to thermal equilibrium. We characterize the underlying quasi-particle excitations by probing the dispersion relations. We find two Goldstone modes which are associated with the emergence of long-range coherence in the density and spin degree of freedom [3].