Is the New Physics Here? Atom Smashers Get an Antimatter Surprise

Live Science ^ | November 17, 2011

[decimon]

The world's largest atom smasher, designed as a portal to a new view of physics, has produced its first peek at the unexpected: bits of matter that don't mirror the behavior of their antimatter counterparts.

The discovery, if confirmed, could rewrite the known laws of particle physics and help explain why our universe is made mostly of matter and not antimatter.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile (27 km) circular particle accelerator underground near Geneva, Switzerland, have been colliding protons at high speeds to create explosions of energy. From this energy many subatomic particles are produced.

Now researchers at the accelerator's LHCb experiment are reporting that some matter particles produced inside the machine appear to be behaving differently from their antimatter counterparts, which might provide a partial explanation to the mystery of antimatter. [The Coolest Little Particles in Nature]

[decimon]

Matter of fact ping.

[outofsalt]

Clear as mud...

[blueunicorn6]

Had a chance to tour the Hadron Collider. I dropped a cat turd on the floor. They thought they discovered something. It was used Meow Mix.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[shove_it]

Hold muh beer and watch this ...

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

[Maurice Tift]

  At Dragoncon, a friend of mine went in costume as the Large Hadron Collider.

[wastedyears]

How do they know how anti-matter behaves? Has it been studied?

[Jack Hydrazine]

I didn’t see him in the video!
Short version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDrwujtV2A&ob=av3e
Long version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZQUVkPl9Zw&feature=relmfu

[decimon]

At Dragoncon, a friend of mine went in costume as the Large Hadron Collider.

Probably better than a Large Hadrian Collider.

[Mike Darancette]

How do the scientists keep up.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

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[rdl6989]

What’s the matter with the matter?

[samtheman]

So all the galaxies in the universe represent .8 percent of the total mass of the big bang. All the rest was evenly divided between matter and anti-matter ... and disappeared.

[SuperLuminal]

"The discovery, if confirmed, could rewrite the known laws of ..."

Now where have I heard or read that before?

Boilerplate that lacks originality...