Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore

zootropole alerts us to a press release issued today by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, announcing the production of 'billions of particles of anti-matter.' "Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear. The anti-matter, also known as positrons, shoots out of the target in a cone-shaped plasma 'jet.' This new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory opens the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter research, including an understanding of the physics underlying various astrophysical phenomena such as black holes and gamma ray bursts." The press release doesn't characterize the laser used in this experiment, but it may have been this one.

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[meringuoid]

American citizens are just another colony of oppressed people that belong to this "American Imperial Empire" that you speak of. Americans in general have no interests in controlling the rest of the world militarily or economically. Most citizens are far more concerned about the distractions like American Idol, Heroes, Paris Hilton, and Cheeseburgers loaded with chemical crap and zero nutrients.

If America were a military dictatorship this might be a legitimate excuse. However, it is not; it is a representative democracy. Why do you not simply vote out the imperialists? Oh, wait: because the imperialists keep the cheeseburgers coming. Then the masses do support the imperialists, through their very apathy. Otherwise their cheeseburgers might become rather more scarce, their car might become smaller, and their clothes far more expensive for want of child slave labour.