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Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter
space.com ^ | 05/18/10

Posted on 05/19/2010 6:56:50 PM PDT by KevinDavis

The seemingly inescapable fact that matter and antimatter particles destroy each other on contact has long puzzled physicists wondering how life, the universe or anything else can exist at all. But new results from a particle accelerator experiment suggest that matter does seem to win in the end.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: space; stringtheory
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1 posted on 05/19/2010 6:56:50 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 05/19/2010 6:57:24 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Jesus Saves... Allah Kills...)
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For all we know, anti-matter won. It’s just a label anyway.


3 posted on 05/19/2010 6:58:06 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: KevinDavis

Thank God profiling...


4 posted on 05/19/2010 7:07:58 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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Thanks KevinDavis. Additional.

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5 posted on 05/19/2010 7:07:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

Their just happy in anti-time.


6 posted on 05/19/2010 7:10:09 PM PDT by allmost
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7 posted on 05/19/2010 7:10:40 PM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: SunkenCiv

think of leftists as “antimatter”

it is necessary for the existence of life and the universe that they not win too many of the collisions

of course, it would be best if the margin of (political) victory were a lot better than 1% over time..... ;^)


8 posted on 05/19/2010 7:14:37 PM PDT by Enchante (Dean Elena Kagan barred military recruiters from Harvard Law campus while Americans dies at war!!!!)
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"not enough to explain how our universe arose consisting mostly of matter with barely a trace of antimatter."

It's the big business, pro-matter lobby and its amen corner in the United States.

9 posted on 05/19/2010 7:14:50 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Because after all the annihilation is done, it’s what’s left that matter’s...


10 posted on 05/19/2010 7:21:24 PM PDT by mikrofon (Anti antimatter)
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11 posted on 05/19/2010 7:28:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv

I saw a show on History where scientists were discussing the possibility of antimatter bombs in the future. Kind of makes me wonder what some scientists may know, but keep to themselves, after seeing what scientists created with nuclear weapons. Personally, I believe nuclear weapons saved the world, but I could imagine how a scientist wouldn’t want to be ‘the one’ that is responsible for being known to create such a thing.


12 posted on 05/19/2010 7:40:24 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: KevinDavis

I wanna see. Those scientists at CERN ought to put out some model video or something.

The 8 year old in a lot of people want to see stuff blowing up.


13 posted on 05/19/2010 7:53:17 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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To: KevinDavis

Does any of this really matter?


14 posted on 05/19/2010 7:56:43 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: UCANSEE2

That’s true, but if it did win, then it is the one called matter then isn’t it. Then matter won.


15 posted on 05/19/2010 8:00:59 PM PDT by NYCslicker
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To: KevinDavis

That might be because anti-matter is rare and volatile


16 posted on 05/19/2010 8:02:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: shibumi

Yo! Antimatter got SERVED! Yo.


17 posted on 05/19/2010 8:02:59 PM PDT by NYCslicker
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To: UCANSEE2

Hebrews 1

1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power.....

Scientists used to use the verse in 2 Peter about the earth and elements dissolving with a fervent heat as evidence the scriptures could not be true- elements could not be dissolved.

Not only can they be dissolved but they give off a rather fervent heat when broken.


18 posted on 05/19/2010 8:26:19 PM PDT by One Name
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To: Raycpa

It matters more often than not. Just barely.


19 posted on 05/19/2010 8:51:20 PM PDT by married21
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To: shibumi

LOL!

Lazarus!


20 posted on 05/19/2010 8:54:09 PM PDT by Salamander (Paint on my cruel or happy face. Hide me behind it.)
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