Technology|June 8, 2011 4:32 am

Antimatter gets trapped for 15 minutes by CERN scientists, escapes unharmed

Antimatter particles have been fugitive small critters which lend towards to vanish moments after being spotted. Unless, it turns out, we trap them in a “magnetic bottle” as well as spin a heat right down to roughly comprehensive zero. CERN scientists have right away used this technique to reason 300 antihydrogen particles for up to 1,000 seconds, relaxing them in to their belligerent (stationary) state to have them simpler to study. This opens a approach for serve investigate after in a year, when prisoner particles will be prodded with lasers as well as microwaves to see if they conform a same laws of production which oversee all else in the universe. After all this effort, we’re sensitively anticipating they don’t.

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