[QUOTE][URL=http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/04/university-of-california-riverside-has.html]University of California Riverside has created Spin Polarized Positronium Antimatter Atoms[/URL]
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[URL=http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=2325]Researchers have isolated collection of “pure” or spin polarized positronium atoms for the first time[/URL]. Spin is a fundamental and intrinsic property of an electron, and refers to the electron’s angular momentum. Spin polarized atoms are atoms that are all in the same spin state. A collection of spin polarized positronium atoms is needed to make a special form of matter, called the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The work could lead to gamma ray lasers and nuclear fusion power generation. [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium]Positronium is a short-lived system in which an electron and its anti-particle are bound together. [wikipedia][/URL]
“We achieved our result by increasing the density of the positronium atoms in our lab experiment,” said David Cassidy, the lead author of the research paper and an assistant researcher working in the laboratory of Allen Mills, a professor of physics. “At such a high density, positronium atoms get annihilated simply by interacting with each other. But it turns out that not all the positronium atoms get annihilated under these conditions.”
"Cassidy explained that positronium atoms come in two types – say, an up type and a down type. The positronium atoms are only annihilated when an up type meets a down type. Two atoms of the same type do not affect each other.
“So if you have 50 percent ups and 50 percent downs and you squeeze them all together they will totally annihilate and turn into gamma rays,” he said. “But if you have, for example, about 66 percent ups and 33 percent downs, then only half of the ups will be destroyed. You will get a load of gamma rays – but in the end you will be left with only one type of atom – in this case, up atoms.
“This is an important development for making the BEC,” Cassidy said, “because you have effectively purified your sample of positronium. And you need a pure collection of spin aligned atoms to make the BEC.”
When atoms are in the BEC state, they are essentially stopped (or they move extremely slowly), facilitating their study. Non-BEC atoms on the other hand whiz around at very high speeds, making them harder to study.
“There are fundamental processes that can be looked at in new ways when you have matter in the BEC state,” Mills said. “Having Bose-condensed atoms makes it easier to probe the way they interact under certain conditions. Moreover, to have motionless positronium atoms is an important aspect for making something called a gamma ray laser, which could have military and numerous scientific applications.”
According to Mills and Cassidy, the new research could lead also to the production of fusion power, which is power generated by nuclear fusion reactions."
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Holy shit not Polarized Positronium Antimatter Atoms.
[QUOTE=Ergolicious;21737808]Holy shit not Polarized Positronium Antimatter Atoms.[/QUOTE]
Interesting indeed.. :science:
It would make for one kick-ass weapon name.
Say hello to my little Polarized Positronium Antimatter Atomlaser 7JLX, bitches.
Soembody put it in laymans terms.
[QUOTE=Oppy;21737868]Soembody put it in laymans terms.[/QUOTE]
It will allow us to use better, safer, and cheaper power sources. And to invent plasma rifles.
Why do I have the feeling that you are posting threads just in the sake of them being complicated and misunderstood?
God damn it I don't understand shit.So we are slowly finding ways to use antimatter?
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;21738338]God damn it I don't understand shit.So we are slowly finding ways to use antimatter?[/QUOTE]
Slowly finding practical purposes beyond what was once science-fiction.
[QUOTE=Sub-Zero;21738338]God damn it I don't understand shit.So we are slowly finding ways to use antimatter?[/QUOTE]
No, to study a huge and dense ensenble of Positronium atoms.
Positronium could be used for blimps, seeing that it's weight is really low...
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21737936]It will allow us to use better, safer, and cheaper power sources. And to invent plasma rifles.[/QUOTE]
But plasma cannot range. And a plasma sword would be cooler anyway.
A gamma laser would mean merely pointing it at them would cause them to burn, then consequently get their DNA fucked up and die.
Lets see what they do with anti-matter in 10 years.
Can you stop making five second threads about something you learned yesterday? Either compile them into one thread and post them there or stop.
There isn't ANY fucking content in this, it's [b]ALL[/b] a quote.
[QUOTE=Quo Vadi;21742049]Can you stop making five second threads about something you learned yesterday? Either compile them into one thread and post them there or stop.
There isn't ANY fucking content in this, it's [b]ALL[/b] a quote.[/QUOTE]
That's why it's on the news section.
And I'll make a space megathread... Later.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21737936]It will allow us to use better, safer, and cheaper power sources. And to invent [b]plasma rifles.[/b][/QUOTE]
No we's fucking talking bitches.
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[QUOTE=Dr Smashy;21738923]But plasma cannot range. And a plasma sword would be cooler anyway.[/QUOTE]
Plasma can get range, all you need is to fire a semi decent power laser ahead of it to burn and move the atmosphere out the way so the plasma is able move through the channel easily.
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