Have you heard? Today, scientists captured ANTIMATTER and held it for more than 16 minutes

[Electric Monk]

This is like something right out of Star Trek :bounce:


Oh, but it's so much more fun to talk about someone tweeting their johnson :/

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Makoto Fujiwara has spent more than a decade in laboratories hunting an elusive prey, the stuff of science fiction — the missing half of everything.


He and other Canadian researchers have finally managed to trap their lightning in a bottle. Only it isn't lightning they've got in the bottle — it's antimatter.


In a paper appearing online Sunday in the journal Nature Physics, lead author Fujiwara and his colleagues say they've succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for more than 16 minutes — virtually an eternity for a rare substance that scientists have struggled to keep intact for more than a few fractions of a second.

http://www.canada.com/technology/Canadian+scientists+bottle+antimatter/4899114/story.html#ixzz1OVj4jx7V
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[Drale]

1. Hyperdrive engines here we come.

:party:

[RKP5637]

2. Good grief! That's an eternity. n/t

[Raschel]

3. I read about it but I don't understand it.

[robinlynne]

8. me too. not really even what anti-matter is. I understand it is the opposite of matter,

but how can that be?

[Raschel]

16. Sounds like a black hole in free-form! Go ahead and laugh it up everyone. :)

[Atypical Liberal]

20. It's pretty easy, really.

Every fundamental atomic particle has an opposite. Electrons have anti-electronics. Protons have anti-protons. And so-on. When an anti-particle collides with a regular particle, they completely annihilate each other, liberating energy.


No one is completely sure yet why "real" matter won out during the creation of our Universe, but of course it is a good thing it did. If equal parts of matter and anti-matter had been created, everything would have annihilated itself. The imbalance is why we exist.

[trotsky]

23. Don't forget the goatees.

Anti-particles have goatees.

[Kermitt Gribble]

51. LMAO! n/t

[Lucinda]

25. Thank you!

Very clear explanation. :)

[Atypical Liberal]

29. No problem! n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

34. I think, therefore I exist. Anti-matter has nothing to do with it :) - n/t

[robinlynne]

44. does that mean there is somewhere a negative of all of us?

[Javaman]

46. I don't know, How could there be someone more negative than me?

;) LOL

I would like to meet this Anti-Javaman.

[robinlynne]

53. lol. ok. I'm just gonna stick with I don't understand it.

[Control-Z]

48. What are the

plans/hopes for using antimatter?

[CoffeeCat]

54. I bet this is how the aliens fly around so fast!

They must have harnessed the power of anti-matter!

Seriously.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. The US politicians slash funding for science..

They don't understand it.
We could be doing the same thing CERN is doing, in Waxahachie, if the Congress had not stopped funding the Superconducting Supercollider.

When we have people like John McCain saying the projector in the Chicago Planetarium needs $2 million dollars, and he calls it an "overhead projector", I think there is no hope for educating them.

:cry: :banghead:

This country does not support research and development.

[RKP5637]

22. The US will be the knuckle draggers of the 21st century. Many other countries

are more than able and willing to take the lead, maybe they will do a better job.

[Garbo 2004]

5. Heard about that. Didn't realize it was for 16 minutes! Thanks for reminding me.

I know the media can't help but slaver over a dick story.

So to speak.

[midnight]

6. Antimatter has long been a popular gimmick in fantastic fiction. It's the stuff that drives the

faster-than-light engines of the starship Enterprise. I suppose NASA will want to use this.....

[Atypical Liberal]

21. So will the military.

Antimatter will make a fantastic bomb.

[MrScorpio]

7. Dibs on the first trip to Risa

I'm ready to get my jamaharon on!

[Speck Tater]

9. WOW! Antimatter now lasts 4 times longer than the average American's attention span! nt

[Cerridwen]

10. I laughed. n/t

[underseasurveyor]

12. HA!

Good one :thumbsup:

[Oilwellian]

14. Ha!

That was very clever. :D

[lonestarnot]

24. ROFLMAO.

:7

[gkhouston]

35. Also, our jobs. n/t

[Odin2005]

42. LOL!

[Javaman]

47. Wait. what were you just saying? nt

[Cerridwen]

11. Still waiting on that transporter though.

Friends and I have decided just how we'll use them to set up camp; store in the buffer until we need camp again.

Visiting the rest of the planet might be cool, too.

I'm just sayin'.

[a simple pattern]

13. Oh yeah, then why didn't it blowed up?

Why didn't it blowed up real good?

[scheming daemons]

15. They held it REALLY tight.

[Rex]

17. It traded spaces with a friend.

[xfundy]

18. OK but where's the dick pic??

Gotta see a big fat wiener or it didn't happen!

[ej510]

19. I will take a pass on seeing another man's cock, but the Antimatter story is cool.

I will send this story to all of my family and friends.

[annabanana]

26. Holy Smokes!!. . .THIS is what everyone should be buzzing about!

Now that we've got it.. What do we do with it? What are the possibilities that just opened up?

[FLPanhandle]

27. This is cool stuff.

Alas, it also means explaining to our science illiterate population that this doesn't mean "faster than light" space travel is possible no matter how many episodes of Star Trek they watched.

[WatsonT]

28. 15 minutes of the most terrifying game of "hot potato" in history

[Ikonoklast]

32. Let's see them store, say, ten kilos of it indefinitely.

Can you say "Planet Cracking Doomsday Weapon"?

I know you can.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. The bastards will kill us all!

[hifiguy]

31. So where is Zephram Cochrane?

Or hasn't he been born yet?

When do we get our warp drive engines anyway?

[WolverineDG]

38. got another 50ish years to go

April 5, 2063

[hifiguy]

39. I thought that was the date of first contact

and Cochrane looked like he'd been around the block far more than once by the time he tested his warp drive craft. :)

[meow mix]

50. no landing gear.. however

pretty good trick... getting back to montana so fast.

[pinboy3niner]

33. Woulda got more attention if they captured it in somebody's pants...

...and posted a picture.

Very cool achievement!

[AsahinaKimi]

36. Oh!!....BUT to DREAM!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD70gvXLZ2s&feature=related

[geomon666]

37. We're doomed

[Peacetrain]

40. WOW.. that is totally star wars!

[flamingdem]

41. So now Weiner can beam his wiener to someone? nt

[Odin2005]

43. Starships, here we come!!!

[HappyMe]

45. This kind of thing is so crazy amazing.

It almost doesn't sound possible.

[Cleita]

49. Awesome news. Thanks for posting. n/t

[librechik]

52. OH oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ooooo!

Time travel etc here we come--or more likely, planetary destruction. Playing with fire cubed.