[wolfcreek]

I guess they haven’t created anti-matter yet or the place would cease to exist. (reference to Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”)

[ASOC]

Lots of fiction deals with Higgs Bosons

Into the Looking Glass by John Ringo is great military scifi in the vein of Dave Drake

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson_(fiction) for the surprisingly long list of books and movies that deal with these elusive subatomic particles.

Big bang indeed!

[Freeport]

Actually, antimatter is created all the time and are indeed used in some colliders as one of two of the colliding beams. The collisions themselves give off antimatter.... The quantities in either case are insufficient to case any damage.

My brother used to work at Fermi Lab so we’ve talked. At that time he thought that the world, in total, had produced about 1x10-5 grams of antimatter; mostly positrons and antiprotons.

If you’re interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton

[tet68]

I guess they haven’t created anti-matter yet or the place would cease to exist.

It’s why I gave up on Italian food, just the thought of
Pasta and Anti-pasta colliding in my stomach and the resultant release of gas, NO!

[RockyMtnMan]

Uhhh, they’ve been making anti-matter for a while now.

http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/factory/AM-factory00.html