Thursday, November 18, 2010
CERN scientists trap anti-matter.
Scientists have been able to trap antimatter long enough to be able to study it.
Scientists at CERN said they had trapped dozens of hydrogen "antimatter" atoms, a technical feat that boosts research into one of the great puzzles of particle physics.Scientists say they bear a remarkable resemblence to Teabaggers, right down to their subatomic Gadsden flags.
Under a theory expounded in 1931 by the eccentric British physicist Paul Dirac, when energy transforms into matter, it produces a particle and its mirror image -- called an anti-particle -- which holds the opposite electrical charge.
When particles and anti-particles collide, they annihilate each other in a small flash of energy...
Thousands of antihydrogen atoms have been made in the lab, but in the most successful experiment so far, 38 have been trapped long enough -- one-tenth of a second -- for them to be studied.
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