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Lightning in a Bottle: Antimatter trapped for 17 minutes

Okay, so antimatter's nothing like lightning, really, but bottling it in a kind of containment field? Doesn't sound like the safest gig. More like something you'd catch Geordi La Forge trying during some wild hair zero-sum Star Trek plotline involving aliens, the Holodeck, rerouting power from life support, and a self-destruct sequence.

Thankfully nothing self-destructed when CERN researchers first created, then forced antihydrogen atoms to hang around for an unprecedented 16 minutes, 40 seconds. That's roughly 16 minutes and 40 seconds longer than the first attempt roughly a year ago, which only managed to snag antihydrogen for a trifling 172 milliseconds (about two-tenths of a second). The new results were published in Nature, impassively titled "Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds."

http://techland.time.com/2011/06/06/lightning-in-a-bottle-antimatter-t
rapped-for-nearly-17-minutes/?hpt=hp_t2



Antimatter hangs around at CERN
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/05/antimatter_for_1000_seconds/

That's like a whole f***ing year in butterfly-time!
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/06/cern-successfully-traps-antimatter-f
or-a.php



ou know what this antimatter trap needs? More tinfoil


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Wednesday, June 8, 2011 7:33 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


:) the Star Trek reference made me smile, silly Geordi, but he always makes it work doesn't he?
What do they intend to apply these new findings to, besides tin foil?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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