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New breakthrough at CERN |
 7 Jun 2011, 7:29
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7 Jun 2011, 8:37
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 Level 17.4  Group: Members Posts: 763 Joined: 12 June 2009 Member No.: 131 Immaturity Incarnate |
That's epic news.I was always curious on how Anti-Matter actually works.
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7 Jun 2011, 23:59
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 Gamer Girl  Group: Legend Posts: 3808 Joined: 19 June 2009 From: Disboard Member No.: 182 Friendly Freelancer |
One step closer to anti-matter reactors. That sure is awesome.
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8 Jun 2011, 15:38
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 Group: Members Posts: 846 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England UK Member No.: 80 Forum Mechanic |
Sorry im a dumbass but is this a good thing or a bad thing? :S
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8 Jun 2011, 16:44
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Well, I'm not a physicist but to put it simple: Like normal matter is composed of particles, anti-matter is composed of anti-particles. Matter and anti-matter annihilate eachother instantaneously upon contact, turning pretty much their entire mass into energy. Now, the tricky thing about anti-matter is that it's incredibly hard to make and even harder to contain as, you guessed it, the moment you made a few particles of it, it annihilates with all the other normal particles around, so you have to contain it in a magnetic field. Making a few hundred ATOMS of anti-matter is a breakthrough, containing them for a grand 16 minutes for study even MORE so. Theoretically, a matter/anti-matter reaction is the most efficient energy reaction we can currently imagine, making it very interesting as an energy source and, as always, a weapon which thankfully works only in theory right now, if at all.
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11 Jun 2011, 6:51
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 Hardly Diplomatic Group: Legend Posts: 1468 Joined: 31 May 2009 From: Brazil Member No.: 4 Projects: Retired |
In B4:
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