The future is here, folks

Subject: The future is here, folks Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:58 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110605/sc_livescience/ephemeralantimattertrappedforamazinglylong16minutes

Quote :: In the ALPHA project, the researchers captured antihydrogen by mixing
antiprotons with positrons — antielectrons — in a vacuum chamber, where
they combine into antihydrogen atoms.
The whole process occurred within a magnetic "bottle" that takes
advantage of the magnetic properties of the antiatoms to keep them
contained. An actual bottle, made of ordinary matter, would not be able
to hold antimatter because when the two types of matter meet they
annihilate.
After the researchers had trapped antimatter in the magnetic bottle,
they could then detect the trapped antiatoms by turning off the magnetic
field and allowing the particles to annihiliate with normal matter,
which creates a flash of light.
The team has now managed to capture 112 antiatoms in this new trap for
times ranging from one-fifth of a second to 1,000 seconds, or 16 minutes
and 40 seconds. (To date, since the beginning of the project, Fajans
and his colleagues have trapped 309 antihydrogen atoms in various
traps.)
And the researchers plan to improve on that, with the "hope that by
2012 we will have a new trap with laser access to allow spectroscopic
experiments on the antiatoms," Fajans said in a statement. Those
experiments would give researchers more information on the antimatter's
properties.

....And we "...boldly go where no man has gone before"?

Maybe we should be more wary of Dan Browns' "angels and demons."

Ann

Subject: Re: The future is here, folks Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:42 am

From ancient history to the present, new science and technology has always appeared to have elements of heinous spirits, igniting fear. The world is unfolding as its destiny prescribes. It the world destroys itself, then it was in the plan.

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