Posted on 12/19/2016 4:31:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
Ever since the existence of antimatter was proposed in the early 20th century, scientists have sought to understand how relates to normal matter, and why there is an apparent imbalance between the two in the Universe. To do this, particle physics research in the past few decades has focused on the anti-particle of the most elementary and abundant atom in the Universe the antihydrogen particle.
Until recently, this has been very difficult, as scientists have been able to produce antihydrogen, but unable to study it for long before it annihilated. But according to recent a study that was published in Nature, a team using the ALPHA experiment was able to obtain the first spectral information on antihydrogen. This achievement, which was 20 years in the making, could open up an entirely new era of research into antimatter.
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Beginning in 1996, this research was conducted using the AnTiHydrogEN Apparatus (ATHENA) experiment, a part of the CERN Antiproton Decelerator facility. This experiment was responsible for capturing antiprotons and positrons, then cooling them to the point where they can combine to form anithydrogen. Since 2005, this task has become the responsibility of ATHENAs successor, the ALPHA experiment.
Using updated instruments, ALPHA captures atoms of neutral antihydrogen and holds them for a longer period before they inevitably annihilate During this time, research teams conduct spectrographic analysis using ALPHAs ultraviolet laser to see if the atoms obey the same laws as hydrogen atoms.
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Hear! Hear!
Not To Mention Their Treatment Of Pavlov's Cat Too!
Bunch uv "cat haters"
What is an antiphoton? Is this some theoretical construct that I’m not familiar with? Honestly asking.
islam held the answer all along. islam is the anti-matter that destroys all matters.
Close.
Excited positrons emit “anti-light” with a left-hand spin when they move from a higher energy state to a lower one.
Excited electrons emit “light” with a right-hand spin.
(Spin here relates to how the electric and magnetic forces interact.)
For some reason, when matter and anti-matter anhillate, the resulting energy has a right-hand spin that corresponds to matter (not anti-matter).
Why? We have no idea. That’s part of what they’re trying to figure out.
/Just my understanding...
>and just what is the speed of dark, anyways?
islam. just a hootch over Camel speed or Goat if no Camels available.
I think antiphotons and uncle photons are like cousins to matter. I know they are related somehow. Not sure how to answer your original question, though. I’m an idiot. Sorry.
I matter;
You matter;
But we are all made of matter;
So what matters?
Love matters;
God is Love, so God matters;
All else does not matter.
/OK, not a great poem, but I tried to matter...
A professor of mine actually wrote a paper on that very thing, which was quite celebrated. It took about 18 months for someone to find a flaw in it. He tried defending it and rewriting it to no avail.
Suffered a nervous breakdown.
True story.
Oddly enough Schroedinger’s cat
didn’t notice anything at all.
Schroedinger on the other hand
did,at least one of him did.
You racist ! Anti-matter Lives, matter!
Islam is the most pernicious of Satan’s false religions.
Maybe there’s an alternate universe where Hillary is honest, and Barack is competent. But I doubt it.
L8r
Wouldn’t we observe matter/anti-matter galactic collisions/annihilations? Does it matter?
My tagline agrees...
FReepMail for you...
MIND OVER MATTER. I get it and you are 100% correct...and THAT matters...on a silver platter!
Some have speculated that such events are the sources of some of the brightest observed gamma-ray bursts...
I can go both ways with regard to Schrödinger’s cat .
It's also called a darkon. When you turn on a lamp, what really happens is that it starts to attract and absorb darkons. A bright room is really a darkon-depleted room. A more powerful lamp can really suck the darkons in big league. Of course, the sun is the most powerful darkon absorber in the neighborhood.
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