Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists
Newsbot @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:00 pm
Title: Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists
Category: Science
Posted By: xerxes
Date: 2010-11-17 11:21:05
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:00 pm
Very cool.
KorbenDeck @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:06 pm
sweet now we can start working towards antimatter bombs. no more nukes.
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:18 pm
KorbenDeck KorbenDeck:
sweet now we can start working towards antimatter bombs. no more nukes.
I see someone gets their Science from Star Trek.
As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet. 
BartSimpson @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:27 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I see someone gets their Science from Star Trek. As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet.
As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet. For a number of years, science got its science from Star Trek so what he posted is, pardon the pun, logical.
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:38 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I see someone gets their Science from Star Trek. As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet.
As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet. For a number of years, science got its science from Star Trek so what he posted is, pardon the pun, logical.
What I liked about the newer series of Trek was they guest starred many prominent scientists, and got a lot of their 'science' from many of the experts. Stephen Hawking even had a guest spot in a holodeck poker game.
Antimatter weapons would be cool, but odds are they would be no different than our regular matter weapons, except they would be harder to handle than regular matter ones.
Recently we calculated that the existence of matter to antimatter slightly favored the matter after the Big Bang, when statistics would seem to favour 50/50 odds. For every 100 particles of matter created in the Big Bang, something like 99 particles of Antimatter were created. So the one leftover particle that is what was leftover, added all together makes up everything we see. Imagine how much there was to begin with?
It'll be really cool if we can make some compounds out of antimatter and see if we can make things like anti-water or anti-methane and see if they react with each other the same as the regular matter counterparts. That will tell us huge things about the universe.
Zipperfish @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:41 pm
Well the first thing I though of when I saw this was the possibility for space and instellar travel. But I guess we could use it to blow each other up too. 
BartSimpson @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:43 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
What I liked about the newer series of Trek was they guest starred many prominent scientists, and got a lot of their 'science' from many of the experts. Stephen Hawking even had a guest spot in a holodeck poker game.
Antimatter weapons would be cool, but odds are they would be no different than our regular matter weapons, except they would be harder to handle than regular matter ones.
Recently we calculated that the existence of matter to antimatter slightly favored the matter after the Big Bang, when statistics would seem to favour 50/50 odds. For every 100 particles of matter created in the Big Bang, something like 99 particles of Antimatter were created. So the one leftover particle that is what was leftover, added all together makes up everything we see. Imagine how much there was to begin with?
It'll be really cool if we can make some compounds out of antimatter and see if we can make things like anti-water or anti-methane and see if they react with each other the same as the regular matter counterparts. That will tell us huge things about the universe.
Antimatter weapons would be cool, but odds are they would be no different than our regular matter weapons, except they would be harder to handle than regular matter ones.
Recently we calculated that the existence of matter to antimatter slightly favored the matter after the Big Bang, when statistics would seem to favour 50/50 odds. For every 100 particles of matter created in the Big Bang, something like 99 particles of Antimatter were created. So the one leftover particle that is what was leftover, added all together makes up everything we see. Imagine how much there was to begin with?
It'll be really cool if we can make some compounds out of antimatter and see if we can make things like anti-water or anti-methane and see if they react with each other the same as the regular matter counterparts. That will tell us huge things about the universe.
If you figure out how to link anti-matter research and internet pornography you'll get most of that research done by the middle of next month.
billypilgrim @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:08 pm
$1:
So the one leftover particle that is what was leftover, added all together makes up everything we see. Imagine how much there was to begin with?
totally. nothing stirs my imagination more than that idea right there.
..except for drew barrymore. she's my other big bang...
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:12 pm
Don't worry Antimatter, I got a hold of Unclefred and he said he'll pay the ransom.
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:30 pm
billypilgrim billypilgrim:
$1:
So the one leftover particle that is what was leftover, added all together makes up everything we see. Imagine how much there was to begin with?
totally. nothing stirs my imagination more than that idea right there.
..except for drew barrymore. she's my other big bang...
I can't do it man. She's hot, but every time I see her, in my mind I hear her saying 'They're heeeeeere!' and that ends it for me.
But yea, the Universe is really really really big.
Tricks @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:33 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
I see someone gets their Science from Star Trek. As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet.
As the article points out, we've been using antimatter positrons for PET scans for decades. It's injected into the blood stream, and no one has blown up yet. For a number of years, science got its science from Star Trek so what he posted is, pardon the pun, logical.
What I liked about the newer series of Trek was they guest starred many prominent scientists, and got a lot of their 'science' from many of the experts. Stephen Hawking even had a guest spot in a holodeck poker game.
Antimatter weapons would be cool, but odds are they would be no different than our regular matter weapons, except they would be harder to handle than regular matter ones.
Recently we calculated that the existence of matter to antimatter slightly favored the matter after the Big Bang, when statistics would seem to favour 50/50 odds. For every 100 particles of matter created in the Big Bang, something like 99 particles of Antimatter were created. So the one leftover particle that is what was leftover, added all together makes up everything we see. Imagine how much there was to begin with?
It'll be really cool if we can make some compounds out of antimatter and see if we can make things like anti-water or anti-methane and see if they react with each other the same as the regular matter counterparts. That will tell us huge things about the universe.
raydan @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:35 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
It'll be really cool if we can make some compounds out of antimatter and see if we can make things like anti-water or anti-methane and see if they react with each other the same as the regular matter counterparts. That will tell us huge things about the universe.
Get back to us with your results.
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:45 pm
Tricks Tricks:
If say anti-water could be made, what's supposed to happen if they come in contact?
If anti-water came into contact with . . .water? In equal amounts, it would release gamma rays, and some particle/antiparticle quarks probably. A pretty energetic reaction, but far less energy than it took to create them. That's pretty much how PET scans work.
Methane and water usually cause the methane to form into formaldehyde, then oxidize into CO, Co2 and Water.
CH4(g) + 2 O2(g) → CO2(g) + 2 H2O(l) + lots of heat.
If anti-water came into contact with anti-methane . . . well, that would be an interesting reaction. Logic says the same physical and chemical principles apply to anti-particles, but if they don't . . .
Things we thought about the Universe start to break down. And that's when science begins!raydan raydan:
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
It'll be really cool if we can make some compounds out of antimatter and see if we can make things like anti-water or anti-methane and see if they react with each other the same as the regular matter counterparts. That will tell us huge things about the universe.
Get back to us with your results.
"If you survive, come again!" Apu
Tricks @ Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:11 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
If anti-water came into contact with anti-methane . . . well, that would be an interesting reaction. Logic says the same physical and chemical principles apply to anti-particles, but if they don't . . . Things we thought about the Universe start to break down. And that's when science begins!
Things we thought about the Universe start to break down. And that's when science begins!Interesting.