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Scientists capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough
By Thair Shaikh, CNN
November 18, 2010 -- Updated 1721 GMT (0121 HKT)
(CNN) -- Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.
Researchers at CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory, have managed to confine single antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap.
This will allow them to conduct a more detailed study of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter.
Understanding antimatter is one of the biggest challenges facing science -- most theoretical physicists and cosmologists believe that at the Big Bang, when the universe was created, matter and antimatter were produced in equal amounts.
However, as our world is made up of matter, antimatter seems to have disappeared.
Understanding antimatter could shed light on why almost everything in the known universe consists of matter.
Antimatter has been very difficult to handle because matter and antimatter don't get on, destroying each other instantly on contact in a violent flash of energy.
In a precursor to today's experiment, in 2002 scientists at CERN produced antihydrogen atoms in large quantities, but they had an incredibly short lifespan -- just several milliseconds -- because the antihydrogen came into contact with the walls of their containers and the two annihilated each other.
In this latest experiment the lifespan of the antihydrogen atoms was extended by using magnetic fields to trap them and thus prevent them from coming into contact with matter.
The researchers created 38 antihydrogen atoms and held on to them for about a tenth of a second, which is long enough to study them says Professor Jeffrey Hangst, one of the team of CERN scientists who worked on the program.
Hangst and his colleagues produced a magnet field which was strongest near the walls of the trap, falling to a minimum at the center, causing the atoms to collect there in a vacuum.
"We could have held them for much longer... I am just full of joy and relief, it's taken us five years to get here, this is a big milestone," Hangst told CNN.
To trap just 38 atoms, they had to run the experiment 335 times, says Nature which published the report findings.
Hangst added: "This was ten thousand times more difficult than creating untrapped antihydrogen atoms.
"This will help us understand the structure of space and time. For reasons that no one yet understands, nature ruled out antimatter... this inspires us to work that much harder to see if antimatter holds some secret."
Malcolm Longair, professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge University, told CNN that CERN's results were a considerable achievement.
"At the Big Bang we believe the temperatures were very very high and we understand in theory why antimatter disappeared but there is no physical theory to back it up."
Antimatter was first predicted in 1931 by the British physicist Paul Dirac, who theorized that antimatter is ordinary matter in reverse.
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.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/18/switzerland.cern.antimatter/index.html?hpt=C1
I'm talking to you, Samson and co. Morons of the highest order.
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they're banished to the CT forum, would you like me to move this there?
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they're banished to the CT forum, would you like me to move this there?
If you don't mind. 8)
Got to fix the title for that.
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No because its a blatant trolling attempt loaded with insult as a "thread" Take it to the Z board.
Can we please get a little consistency around here?
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he was thinking of if it happend on mars...b/c as he has proven physics is different on mars :D
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Can we please get a little consistency around here?
not for you :-*
hardly a comparison anyway. BF actually has an article to debate with Samson. You were just spewing garbage.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=355593.0
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Well well well i it isn't the little slack jaw inbred moron on the loose again. Seems you and the moderator are best of friends now...I just knew it would only take a little nudge to pull him out of his closet and for you two to notice there is more likeness between the two of you than difference.
In any case learn to read you autistic fart. I said COULD not WOULD. Big difference in intention...
no, we still hate eachother :)
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no, we still hate eachother :)
Did you not read the last statement in my post to his response.....QUESTION ANSWERED!!!!
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Did you not read the last statement in my post to his response.....QUESTION ANSWERED!!!!
wtf are you talking about?
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wtf are you talking about?
Oh...I forgot it's you...lemme make it real simple. Your friend Berzerk said "Didn't you say the LHC WOULD destroy the world?"
My response was... I said it COULD not it WOULD. That means there is a POSSIBILITY of it occurring, not that it is a DEFINITE EVENT.
Is it clear now?
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Oh...I forgot it's you...lemme make it real simple. Your friend Berzerk said "Didn't you say the LHC WOULD destroy the world?"
My response was... I said it COULD not it WOULD. That means there is a POSSIBILITY of it occurring, not that it is a DEFINITE EVENT.
Is it clear now?
can you explain again how physics operates different on earth than it does on mars?
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Oh...I forgot it's you...lemme make it real simple. Your friend Berzerk said "Didn't you say the LHC WOULD destroy the world?"
My response was... I said it COULD not it WOULD. That means there is a POSSIBILITY of it occurring, not that it is a DEFINITE EVENT.
Is it clear now?
I still don't get it? You're telling me this because I said BF and I still hate eachother? Are you retarded?
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author=Hugo Chavez link=topic=356280.msg5028794#msg5028794 date=1290143948]
I still don't get it?
Why am I not surprised
You're telling me this because I said BF and I still hate eachother? Are you retarded?
No...and I don't even know where you are getting this thought from. Read the subject line and then read my response to your friend Berzerk
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SamsonEnterprises, what it comes down to is that you're 100x more annoying and retarded than Hugo, hence you are the subject of my ridicule. An uneducated know-it-all scumbag who needs to be laughed at and embarrassed. Hugo's still a twat but you're in another league.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Regardless, you spent quite a bit of time telling us how this collider would destroy the world. So far it's done nothing of the sort and, SURPRISE, actually made some pretty significant advancements.
he was thinking of if it happend on mars...b/c as he has proven physics is different on mars :D
LOL!
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SamsonEnterprises, what it comes down to is that you're 100x more annoying and retarded than Hugo, hence you are the subject of my ridicule.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Regardless, you spent quite a bit of time telling us how this collider would destroy the world. So far it's done nothing of the sort and, SURPRISE, actually made some pretty significant advancements.
Uh... they just started using the thing after an extensive amount of SHUT DOWN TIME AND REPAIRS and they still have not ramped it up to its full power. ..That will not occur until 2011...Until then find a FALLOUT SHELTER
BTW ...What the hell are you doing on this board? Go back to political with your fellow LOSERS...
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Uh... they just started using the thing after an extensive amount of SHUT DOWN TIME AND REPAIRS and they still have not ramped it up to its full power. ..That will not occur until 2011...Until then find a FALLOUT SHELTER
BTW ...What the hell are you doing on this board? Go back to political with your fellow LOSERS...
This thread, that I started, got moved here, thus I'm forced to come in here to post in it. Don't worry, I haven't bothered reading 99% of the trash you posted here. I did, however, come across the hilarity that was your Farrakhan worship. That was gold (pun intended, Jag, I mean Samson, I mean SamsonEnterprises).
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Why am I not surprised
No...and I don't even know where you are getting this thought from. Read the subject line and then read my response to your friend Berzerk
Samson, the only thing I replied to was you saying I was best buddies with BF. Again, what are you yapping about?...
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This thread, that I started, got moved here, thus I'm forced to come in here to post in it. Don't worry, I haven't bothered reading 99% of the trash you posted here. I did, however, come across the hilarity that was your Farrakhan worship. That was gold (pun intended, Jag, I mean Samson, I mean SamsonEnterprises).
You mean 24KT
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You mean 24KT
There's no difference, you snake-oil peddling con artist. ::)
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You mean 24KT
Now I see why you never bothered correcting them before. {sigh} such a useless waste of time & energy.
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for the record, you said the world IS about to come to an end, not "could"
The World Is About To Come To An End... Again... Hadron Collider Reactivated
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=306954.0
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for the record, you said the world IS about to come to an end, not "could"
The World Is About To Come To An End... Again... Hadron Collider Reactivated
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=306954.0
And the DEVIL comes aboard to chime in.
For the record BerzerkHugo...Where in the article did I say THE WORLD WOULD COME TO AN END? The title I attached: "The World Is About To Come To An End... Again... Hadron Collider Reactivated" was to spur everyone's interest so they would read the article. At no time did I say in the article or did the writer say in the article that Hadron was DEFINITELY going to destroy the earth... but I did mention, based on the theoretical claims made about what the collider was intended to do (make black holes), that this could be very dangerous (Maybe at this time you should read the entire thread again in that post...it would help your understanding).
And while I am at it...I only wish you took the time to do as you did here and revisited your comments in the Louis Farrakhan thread (that is before you deleted your rants and breakdowns) and actually READ what was written and EXPLAINED to you before having that massive meltdown and mental breakdown like you did and are still having. Maybe it is easier for you to operate in this fashion, but sadly it lends to confusion, misinterpretations, accusations and BOLD FACE LYING.
HAHA and once again here we have you aligning with BERZERK..before it is all over the line between you two will cease to exist and you will become one...BerzerkHugo
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I don't know that he said it would destroy the world, but he was certain we should all be worried about it. I hope no one lost sleep over it. :)
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And the DEVIL comes aboard to chime in.
For the record BerzerkHugo...Where in the article did I say THE WORLD WOULD COME TO AN END? The title I attached: "The World Is About To Come To An End... Again... Hadron Collider Reactivated" was to spur everyone's interest so they would read the article. At no time did I say in the article or did the writer say in the article that Hadron was DEFINITELY going to destroy the earth... but I did mention, based on the theoretical claims made about what the collider was intended to do (make black holes), that this could be very dangerous (Maybe at this time you should read the entire thread again in that post...it would help your understanding).
And while I am at it...I only wish you took the time to do as you did here and revisited your comments in the Louis Farrakhan thread (that is before you deleted your rants and breakdowns) and actually READ what was written and EXPLAINED to you before having that massive meltdown and mental breakdown like you did and are still having. Maybe it is easier for you to operate in this fashion, but sadly it lends to confusion, misinterpretations, accusations and BOLD FACE LYING.
HAHA and once again here we have you aligning with BERZERK..before it is all over the line between you two will cease to exist and you will become one...BerzerkHugo
wow, that factoid pissed you off ;D You chose to post that title, not me. nice meltdown.
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Samson seems to love to spin the headlines of threads and not be held accountable for it.
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And the DEVIL comes aboard to chime in.
For the record BerzerkHugo...Where in the article did I say THE WORLD WOULD COME TO AN END? The title I attached: "The World Is About To Come To An End... Again... Hadron Collider Reactivated" was to spur everyone's interest so they would read the article. At no time did I say in the article or did the writer say in the article that Hadron was DEFINITELY going to destroy the earth... but I did mention, based on the theoretical claims made about what the collider was intended to do (make black holes), that this could be very dangerous (Maybe at this time you should read the entire thread again in that post...it would help your understanding).
And while I am at it...I only wish you took the time to do as you did here and revisited your comments in the Louis Farrakhan thread (that is before you deleted your rants and breakdowns) and actually READ what was written and EXPLAINED to you before having that massive meltdown and mental breakdown like you did and are still having. Maybe it is easier for you to operate in this fashion, but sadly it lends to confusion, misinterpretations, accusations and BOLD FACE LYING.
HAHA and once again here we have you aligning with BERZERK..before it is all over the line between you two will cease to exist and you will become one...BerzerkHugo
So you're admitting that you're a liar and propaganda machine? Didn't see that coming.
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He is a hater. He hates America so much he is obsessed with it. He yearns for its demise. If he can spook just one person with his false thread titles or cast any bit of doubt he feels better. But the truth is, America ain't going where he wishes it would go. This country never does as we are constantly underestimated.