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LHC Scientists Create and Capture Antimatter
Velcroman1 writes "Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have created antimatter in the form of antihydrogen, demonstrating how it's possible to capture and release it. The development could help researchers devise laboratory experiments to learn more about this strange substance, which mostly disappeared from the universe shortly after the Big Bang 14 billion years ago. Trapping any form of antimatter is difficult, because as soon as it meets normal matter — the stuff Earth and everything on it is made out of — the two annihilate each other in powerful explosions. 'We are getting close to the point at which we can do some classes of experiments on the properties of antihydrogen,' said Joel Fajans, a University of California, Berkeley professor of physics, and LBNL faculty scientist. 'Since no one has been able to make these types of measurements on antimatter atoms at all, it's a good start.'"
... for destroying the world in 2012.
If I reply, will our comments annihilate each other?
..then does that mean it doesn't matter? :-)
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Now if they could only create antiidiot we could release it and take care of most of the worlds problems.
This would have been a better joke if you said "last get" instead.
Naw, the real question is, "Does it antimatter?"
If they really created antihydrogen, they should prove it by taking a photo.
We'll have to be extra cautious that they don't just take a photo of regular hydrogen and apply a negative filter to the image.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
It would be a big thing if someone created anti-copper AND it didn't behave exactly like copper when supplied with an anti-potential from an anti-battery.
Would anti-physicists finally get the polarity correct on the anti-battery or would it still be backwards?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Wait, wut? Are you try to say, 'If man had been meant to mess with anti-matter, GOD would have given us anti-matter containment systems built into our hands!"? :)
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LHC Scientists Create and Capture Antimatter
PETAM (People for the Ethical Treatment of Antimatter) are not going to be pleased with this. Especially the bits about physicists staging pit-bull style "dog fights" between matter and antimatter, and placing quantum mechanics based bets to the outcome of the duels.
Remember, children, "God does not play dice!"
And let that antimatter roam free! No capture, no antimatter!
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Wait, first they told me that the LHC was trying to make a dangerous black hole, and now they tell me they're trying to launch antimatter projectiles. I don't get it, are they trying to make a Romulan Warbird or the Starship Enterprise?
How do you trap a neutral antiparticle?
Tell him that his neutral anti-girlfriend is pregnant.
John
Really, that sounds more like the answer to "How do you get a neutral antiparticle to skip town and never be heard from again".
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A neutron walks into a bar. He goes up to the counter and asks the bartender, "How much for a beer?"
The bartender looks the neutron up and down and says, "For you? No charge."
Rather than sodium flush a little antihydrogen down the toilet.
We will never know since every time an anti-physicist turns up for a meeting with a physicist to discuss their results they both disappear.
AT&ROFLMAO
Don't you see the correlation, sending thousands of Slashdot readers to Fox News has about the same explosive effect as when anti-matter comes in contact with normal matter. Just read some of the comments under the article on Fox and compare/contrast.
No, they'll define anti-current to be positive in the direction the negative antimatter charge carriers would move if they existed.
Yes yes, but what has this got to do with TimeCube?!?!
Naw, the real question is, "Does it antimatter?"
Absolutely positively!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
IANAP
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The bartender looks the neutron up and down and says, "For you? No charge."
Of course if the bartender had been a particle physicist and looked him up and down then he would have said: "Hey you're no neutron, you are a quark short. That'll be full charge for you, you pion!"
Why not just make a container out of anti-matter? Problem solved.
... who thought he was a positron.
"Are you sure?", I asked.
"I'm positive".
*ducks*