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CERN antimatter discovery
« on: November 18, 2010, 10:07:09 AM »
Neither political nor religious, but I feel like stuff like this will be mostly ignored in GD.  Mods feel free to move it if you see fit.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_switzerland_antimatter

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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2010, 10:16:49 AM »
Hmm, I was under the impression that antimatter atoms had been created for quite a while now.

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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2010, 10:19:47 AM »
Quote from: rumborak on November 18, 2010, 10:16:49 AM
Hmm, I was under the impression that antimatter atoms had been created for quite a while now.

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I think the breakthrough is that they were able to keep it in place, not create it.
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2010, 10:21:03 AM »
EDIT: Sigz wins.

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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2010, 12:05:40 PM »
We're one step closer to warp drives.
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2010, 12:14:32 PM »
Quote from: Implode on November 18, 2010, 12:05:40 PM
We're one step closer to warp drives.

All you need to do for that is drive really fast in the snow.
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2010, 12:26:19 PM »
Quote from: Adami on November 18, 2010, 12:14:32 PM
All you need to do for that is drive really fast in the snow.

Oh, I've done that.
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2010, 06:12:59 PM »
Very cool stuff. Is antimatter the same as dark matter?
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2010, 06:25:06 PM »
Two different concepts.  I'm not a physicist, and I don't know much about these topics, but the way I understand it, dark matter is thought to exist because of a difference between gravity's observed effects on a body and that which can be measured using EM radiation.

I'm even less clear on the origins of the concept of antimatter.  Maybe one of the physics dudes here knows how it came about.

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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2010, 06:26:11 PM »
Quote from: Chino on November 18, 2010, 06:12:59 PM
Very cool stuff. Is antimatter the same as dark matter?

Nope, dark matter is "matter that is inferred to exist from gravitational effects on visible matter and background radiation, but is undetectable by emitted or scattered electromagnetic radiation." It's essentially matter that math says is there but we can't really observe.

At least that's what I got from my basic understanding of Astronomy and reading Wikipedia for five minutes.
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2010, 08:00:40 PM »
One of my favorite blogs created a comprehensive chart on the subject:

https://www.tedquarters.net/2010/11/17/matter-matters/
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2010, 09:40:31 PM »


Falcor approves of this research.
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Re: CERN antimatter discovery
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2010, 07:06:17 AM »
Awesome. I did anihydrogen as a research project in my undergrad studies. Its cool that they have finally got around to storing some. Hopefully some interesting spectroscopy will come out of it.
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« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2010, 10:23:45 AM »
Keep this thread away from the Illuminati!  :biggrin:
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