CERN makes and traps anti-matter, mystery of science

[potterboy]

CERN makes and traps anti-matter, mystery of science | Reuters

(Reuters) - Physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on Wednesday they have created and trapped anti-matter, one of the biggest mysteries of modern science.

In an article in the journal Nature, CERN said it had produced anti-hydrogen atoms -- the opposite of a hydrogen atom -- in a vacuum and kept them viable for about a tenth of a second: "Long enough to study them," it said.

Some 38 anti-hydrogen atoms have now been trapped long enough for scientists to take a look at them in their quest to understand what happened to anti-matter after the Big Bang explosion that created the universe.

"For reasons that no one yet understands, nature ruled out anti-matter," Jeffrey Hangst, a spokesman for the "Alpha" experiment, said in a statement. "This inspires us to work that much harder to see if anti-matter holds some secret."

[britannica]

now we're getting somewhere with the big bang theory
really like the name of the experiment...the "Alpha" experiment..which is the beginning which is the big bang..hope they will use it for a good reason and not end up for war.

[Bangkilan]

Many physicist claim that you can handle antimatter by having it

suspended in a magnetic field However when you have antimatter

suspended around matter the antimatter just releases all its energy

So it is good i think that antimatter must be suspended in a vacuum

or in space where matter are very far apart from each other And having

something suspended between two magnetic fields does not stay suspended

forever Even diamagnetic objects fail to suspend in air for very long

periods of time.

*Now i started thinking when militarists use science in ways of weaponry*

[yhokz101]

Many physicist claim that you can handle antimatter by having it

suspended in a magnetic field However when you have antimatter

suspended around matter the antimatter just releases all its energy

So it is good i think that antimatter must be suspended in a vacuum

or in space where matter are very far apart from each other And having

something suspended between two magnetic fields does not stay suspended

forever Even diamagnetic objects fail to suspend in air for very long

periods of time.

*Now i started thinking when militarists use science in ways of weaponry*

There's no doubt they will..

[fritzd]

This is really interesting. Just recently, I had the pleasure to meet and hear Theodor W. Hänsch's Nobel prize winning research (2005) about Ultra-high precision laser spectroscopy of hydrogen. http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...A4nsch&h=d2edd
It was really amazing to see a Nobel prize. More than that, the topic was very very interesting. He also spoke about this recent Antihydrogen being capture. They are also interested in dong ultra-high precision spectroscopy of Antihydrogen. There is really a big debate about whether the measurements will be exactly the same. According to CP symmetry in quantum theory, since they are exactly symmetric, they should give exactly the same spectroscopy.

However, Prof Hänsch gave a very interesting remark. He said that ideally it should be the same. But this is exactly true for an Antihydrogen living in an Anti-Universe. However, the Antihydrogen that is contained here is living in a regular matter universe. This means there might be several interactions that we might not know about and he said won't be surprised if the spectroscopy of Antihydrogen wouldn't be the same as regular Hydrogen.

[bluerose]

"CERN's next ambition is to create a beam of antimatter which they hope will allow them to unpeel more of the mysteries surrounding it."

--i am soo awaiting for this.

[unregistered]

I hope Dan Brown's novel still remains a fiction.

[Bangkilan]

Oooopss.! UPDATE ON CERN RECENTLY

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Discovery of a new particle *PentaQuarks*


CERN’s Large Hadron Collider confirms newest particle: the pentaquark | ExtremeTech

[Brownman_politiks]

I heard nga e activate na pod nila ang LHC this month?

the goal is to tear the fabric of the Higgs Field, unsa na kaha ang result?

[tsunade]

OffT: Im thinking if @Tetrad read this kind of article. lol