Mind over antimatter: Physicists explore new frontier

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/November/international_November877.xml§ion=international

(AFP)

17 November 2010,

PARIS — Scientists at CERN said on Wednesday they had trapped dozens of hydrogen ‘antimatter’ atoms, a technical feat that boosts research into one of the great puzzles of particle physics.

Under a theory expounded in 1931 by the eccentric British physicist Paul Dirac, when energy transforms into matter, it produces a particle and its mirror image — called an anti-particle — which holds the opposite electrical charge.

When particles and anti-particles collide, they annihilate each other in a small flash of energy.

[Xipe Totec]

1. Small flash? I think not. nt

[sfwriter]

2. Yeah, I think that energy is equal to the mass of the particles...

...times the square of lightspeed or something. I'm pretty sure I read that some place.

[lonestarnot]

3. Extremely cu!

[Orsino]

4. Quick! We need an art historian! n/t