Cern Scientists Trap First Antimatter Atoms

[Infinatex]

For the non-science people out there... like me, what does this mean? Is this anything like that thing in Angels and Demons?

Well, anti-matter is exactly what the name would suggest: it's matter, but the opposite. When matter and anti-matter come in contact with each other both dissolve in an enormous blast of energy, which, if uncontrolled, would be pretty much a gigantic explosion, destroying everything within a certain radius - depending of how much anti-matter and matter came into contact with each other.

However, with a bit more advanced technology, it would also make a crackin' rocket fuel, as, say, a litre of anti-matter and matter would be able to propel your rocket about a million times further than a litre of traditional rocket fuel.

Ooooh okay. Solve the fuel crisis then. How big on an explosion? This sounds like something a bit dangerous to be messing with.

 

[quantum mechanic]

Awesome!

Also: did you know that something called positronium ACTUALLY EXISTS?!

 

[rsvp42]

Then a warp gate opened and daemons came out a killed everyone there.

That's enough of my paranoid 40k thoughts. ^^

Hey now, we still have tens of millennia before we need to worry about all that. Bring on that Dark Age of Technology, wooooo!

Though I do wonder how much energy it took to even do that little bit. We need net gains, scientists. Chop, chop. Back to work.

 

[Mcupobob]

This whole article blew my mind. It was like reading a standard tech report form the distance future.

 

[Seef]

Now all we have to do is wait for a guy to steal it and kill the pope.

 

[dalek sec]

Then a warp gate opened and daemons came out a killed everyone there.

That's enough of my paranoid 40k thoughts. ^^

You fool, turn on the gellar field!

OT: This is awesome! Glad to see the earth is still standing after this awesome result.

 

[Omega500]

So where my damn Holodeck

 

[Red Pawn]

 

[Death916]

Soon they will destroy us with their accidental black hole

Anti matter annihilates not collapse into a black hole.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Who knows what can be accomplished if we learn how to control the antimatter. Maybe nothing at all, maybe everything. Maybe even FTL!!!

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Yeah, news like this make me glad to be a scientist (in training...kinda). Congrats to my colleagues/nemeses in the physics department over in beautiful Switzerland. Now get back to work and build me a goddamn warp drive!

 

[VanityGirl]

SCIENCEGASM!!!!

I'm so freaking pumped!

 

[dontpokethebear]

angels and demons. read the book, destroy every copy of the movie you find

 

[megs1120]

While this is cool, antimatter energy is far too unstable to safely use. People complain about radiation because it might kill you in low doses and will in large doses. Antimatter WILL kill you at any dose.

The future of space travel lies in wormholes.

The problem with wormholes is that you'd need negative matter to hold the hole open, and so far, there is no evidence that such a thing exists.

 

[pendragon177]

I smell the plot of a Dan Brown novel.

Have you seen Angels and Demons? Not read the book, don't like the way he writes, but the film is centered around that. :L

Ya, I saw the movie and read the book. I felt that the book had a more epic ending than the movie. But the movie did do a good job cutting characters and replacing them where needed but still, I thought the book was better.

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

... LOOK !!!! THEYRE CLEARLY EVIL SCIENTISTS TRYING TO DESTROY THE WORLD !!! I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I DONT UNDERSTAND IT, THEREFORE ITS EVIL !!! ALSO, WHY WOULD THEY BLOW UP THE PLANET THEYRE ON ?!?! WHATEVER !!!! SCIENCE IS EVIL !!!

Seriously though, this is pretty cool.

Yes it is.

People like ^that^ are funny though...and should not be allowed to live. They are the people who get legislation passed to restrict scientific, and therefore humanities, advancement (EG, stem cell research in the US). Yet, they wonder why US schools are falling behind in math and science and we are losing high paying jobs in science and medicine.

Science is awesome.

 

[pendragon177]

angels and demons. read the book, destroy every copy of the movie you find

Amen to that. The book had an awesome epic twist that I hate the movie for leaving out.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

Did the flux capaciter flux?

 

[Acting like a FOOL]

ANTI-MON!!!
Gotta Catch em' ALL!!