Physicists at CERN have created the stuff of “Star Trek” for the first time ever: genuine antimatter. A 17-member team announced the production and preservation of 38 antihydrogen atoms. Physicists Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain of the University California, Berkeley, earned the 1959 Nobel Prize for producing part of an antihydrogen atom, antiprotons. “We’ve overcome the last important hurdle in the quest to do precision experiments on the antihydrogen atom, a goal for 20 years,” CERN co-investigator Francis Robicheaux. “It was an incredibly difficult undertaking to trap antihydrogen.”
Great article Mike, thanks.
Melanika53,
Unwanted women never seem to get tired of man bashing. The good news? If 53 is your age, you still have a lot of years left to be alone and bitter...mainly thanks to the myriad of medical advancements men have accomplished over the years. You're welcome.
Kelly, sorry to break up your beautiful fiction with an ugly dose of fact, but dear, I'm neither alone nor bitter. Enlightening someone to the very real problems they face isn't bashing it's called, well...enlightening them. I'm very happily married thank you, with 9 grown and very successful kids, 12 grandkids and a great husband who loves me and whom I cherish. And no, he's no wimp, he's a martial arts master and boxing instructor for physically challenged children. Personal bitterness has nothing to do with what I said, and maybe you should think before you react and in the words of the late Paul Harvey get "The rest of the story."
Men are in trouble. How do I know? Years of research? I'm a scientist and medical researcher whose job it is to study abnormal genetics of humans, and whose specialty and focus at the moment happens to be males and the future of their health. Considering I have 5 sons and several grandsons, I have a vested interest in staying abreast of what is happening to them. Now, again, men have more serious things to worry about that attempting to recreate antimatter, like trying to stick around for the next 100 years. That being said, please don't respond to me again, it's exhausting interacting with ignorance and I really don't care what you think.
Well, I guess this must be the reason nature is now fighting back by attacking the males of our species. Believe it or not, men have better things to worry about than how to create an antimatter bomb (typical for males to think only of what can destroy and disintegrate) they need to worry about what is going on in their bodies. Clue: you may not continue living on this planet in short order if nature has anything to say about it. And she does. Stay tuned.
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CERN Physicists Create Antimatter (and Could Build a Bomb in a Billion Years)
Posted by: Mike Martin November 18, 2010 12:04 PMPhysicists at CERN have created the stuff of “Star Trek” for the first time ever: genuine antimatter. A 17-member team announced the production and preservation of 38 antihydrogen atoms. Physicists Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain of the University California, Berkeley, earned the 1959 Nobel Prize for producing part of an antihydrogen atom, antiprotons. “We’ve overcome the last important hurdle in the quest to do precision experiments on the antihydrogen atom, a goal for 20 years,” CERN co-investigator Francis Robicheaux. “It was an incredibly difficult undertaking to trap antihydrogen.”
Melanika53,
Unwanted women never seem to get tired of man bashing. The good news? If 53 is your age, you still have a lot of years left to be alone and bitter...mainly thanks to the myriad of medical advancements men have accomplished over the years. You're welcome.
Men are in trouble. How do I know? Years of research? I'm a scientist and medical researcher whose job it is to study abnormal genetics of humans, and whose specialty and focus at the moment happens to be males and the future of their health. Considering I have 5 sons and several grandsons, I have a vested interest in staying abreast of what is happening to them. Now, again, men have more serious things to worry about that attempting to recreate antimatter, like trying to stick around for the next 100 years. That being said, please don't respond to me again, it's exhausting interacting with ignorance and I really don't care what you think.
Melanika