[quote]Geneva, 17 November 2011. The ALPHA experiment at CERN1 has taken an important step forward in developing techniques to understand one of the Universe’s open questions: is there a difference between matter and antimatter? In a paper published in Nature today, the collaboration shows that it has successfully produced and trapped atoms of antihydrogen. This development opens the path to new ways of making detailed measurements of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter.
Antimatter – or the lack of it – remains one of the biggest mysteries of science. Matter and its counterpart are identical except for opposite charge, and they annihilate when they meet. At the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been produced in equal amounts. However, we know that our world is made up of matter: antimatter seems to have disappeared. To find out what has happened to it, scientists employ a range of methods to investigate whether a tiny difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could point towards an explanation.
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Antihydrogen atoms are produced in a vacuum at CERN, but are nevertheless surrounded by normal matter. Because matter and antimatter annihilate when they meet, the antihydrogen atoms have a very short life expectancy. This can be extended, however, by using strong and complex magnetic fields to trap them and thus prevent them from coming into contact with matter. The ALPHA experiment has shown that it is possible to hold on to atoms of antihydrogen in this way for about a tenth of a second: easily long enough to study them. Of the many thousands of antiatoms the experiment has created, ALPHA’s latest paper reports that [b]38 have been trapped for long enough to study.[/b][/quote]
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Copious amounts of SCIENCE detected. :science:
Edit: please excuse the typo in the title.
Science is the future :science:
Hooray progress!
antimatter bombs! :science:
One step closer to warp drives, or decimating WMD's!
Kaboom if any nano-mistake made.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;26120421]antimatter bombs! :science:[/QUOTE]
First thing I thought of.
Oh shit, Ewan McGregor is going blow up the Vatican!
The current amount would probably have the energy of a match though, not exact;y a viable weapon yet.
"Geneva, 17 November 2011"
apparently they solved the mystery of time travel as well!
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Well Fuck this.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;26120467]Oh shit, Ewan McGregor is going blow up the Vatican![/QUOTE]
It was that other guy. Ewan flew the helicopter up, remember?
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[QUOTE=acds;26120468]The current amount would probably have the energy of a match though, not exact;y a viable weapon yet.[/QUOTE]
My ass, I dare you to put it against your skin, if it is a match, like you say.
[QUOTE=RayDark;26120533]It was that other guy. Ewan flew the helicopter up, remember?
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My ass, I dare you to put it against your skin, if it is a match, like you say.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't do much more than a small burn.
[quote]If we could assemble all of the antimatter we've ever made at CERN and annihilate it with matter, we would have enough energy to light a single electric light bulb for a few minutes[/quote]
[QUOTE=RayDark]
My ass, I dare you to put it against your skin, if it is a match, like you say.[/QUOTE]
like you can even gét the antimatter to your skin
:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=RayDark;26120533]It was that other guy. Ewan flew the helicopter up, remember?[/QUOTE]
The other guy was being paid to do it by Ewan, that was the point of the whole movie.
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Technically, Ewan is going to stage someone blowing up the Vatican so he can heroically rescue it and become Pope and lead a crusade against science.
The trapping technique is still, sadly enough, very inefficient.
[QUOTE=Chrille;26120479]"Geneva, 17 November 2011"
apparently they solved the mystery of time travel as well![/QUOTE]
It is November 17th in Europe right no---nevermind, I just saw the year.
Anyhow on topic, [B][I]SCIENCE OVERLOAD![/I][/B]
Though imagine inventing the way to create decent amounts of antimatter. You could base loads of technologies (weapons, energy, fuel, and more) off it, you'd become pretty darn rich.
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[QUOTE=croguy;26120606]It is November 17th in Europe right now. I think that Australia, West American coast and Asia are still on the 16th.[/QUOTE]
I think he was referring to the 2011.
Didn't someone put up the explosive power of an antimatter/matter annihalation in the forums some time ago in killotons, didn't a gram of each have the explosive power of 50 tons of TNT?
[QUOTE=acds;26120609]Though imagine inventing the way to create decent amounts of antimatter. You could base loads of technologies (weapons, energy, fuel, and more) off it, you'd become pretty darn rich.
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Weaponized Antimatter would be a real bitch to deal with. One little fuck up in the containment field and everyone gets fucked. Hell any decent amount would be a bitch
[QUOTE=viperfan7;26120620]Didn't someone put up the explosive power of an antimatter/matter annihalation in the forums some time ago in killotons, didn't a gram of each have the explosive power of 50 tons of TNT?[/QUOTE]
1kg of anti-matter equals more or less 43 megatons. As you can imagine 1 ton of antimatter would make one huge boom.
And then, Earth was sucked in a black hole.
[QUOTE=croguy;26120606]It is November 17th in Europe right now. I think that Australia, West American coast and Asia are still on the 16th.[/QUOTE]
But it's not 2011 yet.
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Whoa, epic ninja'd
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;26120582]The other guy was being paid to do it by Ewan, that was the point of the whole movie.
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Technically, Ewan is going to stage someone blowing up the Vatican so he can heroically rescue it and become Pope and lead a crusade against science.[/QUOTE]
But Ewan wasn't the one blowing it up, atheistfag was.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;26120633]Weaponized Antimatter would be a real bitch to deal with. One little fuck up in the containment field and everyone gets fucked.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it would be extremely dangerous to store. It would probably have to be created soon before it's used (for example, create the anti-matter, load it in the warhead and launch, no storage).
Antimatter is nothing new. It's been created before. Awesome to see CERN made it as well now though.
[QUOTE=acds;26120609]I think he was referring to the 2011.[/QUOTE]
Shit, I really am blind.
Wow, this is pretty amazing progress for science!
[QUOTE=acds;26120638]1kg of anti-matter equals more or less 43 megatons. As you can imagine 1 ton of antimatter would make one huge boom.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't it also leave a big sphere of empty instead of the regular "kablaaaam"? I don't remember where I got this from, though.
[QUOTE=acds;26120667]Yeah it would be extremely dangerous to store. It would probably have to be created soon before it's used (for example, create the anti-matter, load it in the warhead and launch, no storage).[/QUOTE]
Doesnt work like that. You would still need to maintain a strong field around the antimatter to separate it from everything else, only once the bomb reaches its target would the field be turned off or disrupted allowing the nifty explosion.
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