Antigravity gets first test at Cern's Alpha experiment
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[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355187[/URL]
[QUOTE][B]Researchers at Cern in Switzerland have tested a novel way to find out if antimatter is the source of a force termed "antigravity".[/B]
Antimatter particles are the "mirror image" of normal matter, but with opposite electric charge.
How antimatter responds to gravity remains a mystery, however; it may "fall up" rather than down.
Now researchers [URL="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2787"]reporting in Nature Communications[/URL] have made strides toward finally resolving that notion.
Antimatter presents one of the biggest mysteries in physics, in that equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created at the Universe's beginning.
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Whaaat the hell anti-gravity matter/particles...
edit: didnt think this was possible actually.
I was going to post this the other day, but it isn't a finding, merely a hunch:
[URL]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430113429.htm[/URL]
Also, props to the BBC for citing Nature Communications!
I love the shit that these guys do, I wish I could work at a place like that but I'm not that well educated to work at a place like that sadly enough :v:
Unless I were a janitor
[QUOTE=Killer900;40509676]I love the shit that these guys do, I wish I could work at a place like that but I'm not that well educated to work at a place like that sadly enough :v:
Unless I were a janitor[/QUOTE]
You need a background in theoretical physics to even be a janitor there.
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;40509955]You need a background in theoretical physics to even be a janitor there.[/QUOTE]
The toilet is in superposition.
Until it is flushed shit remains both in it and not in it at the same time... :v:
[QUOTE=Killer900;40509676]I love the shit that these guys do, I wish I could work at a place like that but I'm not that well educated to work at a place like that sadly enough :v:
Unless I were a janitor[/QUOTE]
you could pull a good will hunting on that shit.
Anyone care to give an explantation on what that article is saying in layman's terms?
[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;40510106]Anyone care to give an explantation on what that article is saying in layman's terms?[/QUOTE]
Sure.
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Okay guises :(
I was thinking that it will look like the ones from WipEout.
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;40509955]You need a background in theoretical physics to even be a janitor there.[/QUOTE]Really? I'd guess they have their reasons for it but damn.
[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;40510106]Anyone care to give an explantation on what that article is saying in layman's terms?[/QUOTE]
They are testing to see how anti-matter behaves in with regard to gravity.
We know that anti-matter holds all of the opposite electromagnetic properties, but we wish to know if this gives it an anti-gravitation component, so as to show a relationship between electromagnetism and gravity in properties opposite to what have been tested..
2 cases
1) Gravity behaves as normal matter does, despite being antimatter.
2) Gravity behaves differently, due to a different composition of matter (opposite to that), which means that there is an electromagnetic / electro-weak component (HUGE FUCKING HOLE IN THE STANDARD MODEL) which cannot compensate for the experimental result.
[QUOTE=Madtoker;40509544]Whaaat the hell anti-gravity matter/particles...
edit: didnt think this was possible actually.[/QUOTE]
(spoiler alert: the results don't say that antimatter falls up)
So in a few years we'll be able to buy Back to the Future hoverboards that don't suck ass?
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;40510229](spoiler alert: the results don't say that antimatter falls up)[/QUOTE]
Thus why I refused to post the Sciencedaily article. XD
So.... who do I email about my flying car?
[QUOTE=Killer900;40510182]Really? I'd guess they have their reasons for it but damn.[/QUOTE]
Bradyn's post is merely one of the millions of reasons you'd need that kind of education to work there.
soon we'll hear Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook whores and faggots crying about how their parents bought them a less stable generation 2 trans-grav instead of a new shiny expensive generation 4 one
based switzerland
It seriously concerns me that I never thought that there was an opposite of gravity that pushes away
[QUOTE=Killer900;40510182]Really? I'd guess they have their reasons for it but damn.[/QUOTE]
Funnily, that's the tip of the [url=http://jobs.web.cern.ch/content/eligibility-conditions]iceberg.[/url]
Gonna go ahead and piss on everyone's parade and predict it's going to behave normally.
Even if it does behave differently we won't be able to produce enough for any flying vehicle in our lifetime (most probably, at least).
Good. Because they have two years per Back to the Future to get us our hover skateboard.
its not anti-gravity, its an experiment to determine if anti-matter falls up or down, if it does fall up, then its experiencing anti-gravity, if it falls down then our flying cars will have to wait until we come up with something that does work
[editline]3rd May 2013[/editline]
also i wouldnt want to ride on an antigravity skateboard if antimatter is needed
[quote]antimatter particles are the "mirror image" of normal matter, but with opposite electric charge.
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What?
I mean, sure it's true, but that sorta leaves out few important details as a statement.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;40515271]antiprotons are called negatrons how fucking cool is that
[editline]3rd May 2013[/editline]
what does it leave out? that's the only difference, spin is the same, isospin is the same etc etc and negatrons are made out of antiquarks i guess that's something you could mention too[/QUOTE]
Quantum spin is the opposite.
And I just can't swallow "mirror image" as anyhow usable term.
They are real actual matter! Just... anti
Up until I was like 12 or 13 I though anti gravity rooms were real things. The day I found out they weren't was a sad day indeed.
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