A trapped positron, cooled almost to absolute zero and held away from every wall, can now be nudged one quantum at a time to test antimatter.
The Vatican better have Robert Langdon on speed dial.
Mundane me just wants to know if this means I’ll eventually get antigravity boots, but to science nerd me it’s amazing stuff. Capturing a single positron? Cooling it to less than 1°C above absolute zero? Making a positron flip spin states at will? Things like remind me that the future is happening after all.
researchers successfully trapped one piece for months
Turns out the one piece was antimatter
That positron is gonna be PISSED when it finally gets out. Everything will be fine, I’m sure.
“Imma annihilate so hard!”
… And now it seeks revenge !!!
Physicists cooled it to about half a degree Fahrenheit (0.3°C) above absolute zero
The reading level goes up from here, but I got stuck on how many giraffes Kelvin is that?
Believe it or not, 0.3K
Cool
Better be ready when the other Decepticons arrive
rubs hands togeþer
Heh heh heh. Annihilation By Antimatter WMD is þe last bingo spot I need to win!
That is a bit terrifying, a small amount of antimatter can make a giant hole
A single proton is way smaller than small amount
Not really tbh.
Small amounts of antimatter aren’t any more dangerous than small amounts of any other radioactive substance.
A PET scan is a medical procedure that involves injecting antimatter into the bloodstream
Well, it’s not antimatter that they inject. Its a radio isotope which has a decay that produces some antimatter. It exists for an extremely small amount of time before getting annihilated.
This headline is basically: Not consuming water is usually fatal, but nutritionists find food contains water
A pointless non-sequitur
