Aw sweet! Thanks for the tip!

Yeah very literal. Would need millions of atoms of the stuff. Actually maybe that’s too dangerous lol

We have managed to see a single strontium atom - link. Maybe that’s attainable with anti-matter.

But yeah you’re right, capturing an anti-hyrdogen emission would be an huge achievement itself!

Aw yeah for sure they could make it more compact! Would love to see it. If we could actually make meaningful quantities of anti-matter. Could we use it for power? What would transport look like? Anti-matter is one of my favourite subjects lol

Ah sorry i get you! Yeah like how long could we go? Indefinitely?

Looking at the photo the equipment does seem quite large, it takes up the whole room. Can say for sure they don’t have the funding to dedicate that much equipment to a static experiment.

Do agree with you though. Would be interesting to see the numbers for long term storage.

A positron gets created by radioactive decay. Certainly the process to make an appropriate isotope (Sodium 22) is not trivial but the creation anti-matter will just happen.

Capturing it and storing it is the hard part which the team proved they can do. As they were working with a single positron and have developed the procedure for capturing one there is no reason to keep it for further experiments.

Yeah probably but the important bit is why!

Good point about right handedness! That is actually quite fascinating as well because in most other primates it’s a 50/50 split.

Turns out walking is probably the major factor and our brains created the split - link. Still more questions though lol

This is just a guess but i reckon they got the data they needed from the experiment so they chose to end it. This is one step in a larger body of work. One of the team members has measured the magnetic moment of the electron extremely precisely and wants to do the same with a positron. I believe this experiment was to show they can capture and manipulate a positron for an extended period of time. Now they can move on to the real measurements!

This is actually really exciting! I fucking love anti-matter, always been fascinated by it.

If anti-matter can exist, why is our universe made of matter? This is the Baryon Asymmetry question that this research seeks to answer. The team has proven they can isolate a single positron. The next step is to measure it to as much accuracy as they have with the electron. Perhaps they will find differences!

Summer '25 CERN showed that anti-matter baryons (protons, neutrons, etc) decay differently - link. So there’s a good chance they might find something!

Would love to actually see anti-matter but that’s a long way off. Really hope anti-matter likes to stick together and we could actually build atoms out of it. Would be crazy to study the properties of anti-water! Maybe that’s just science fiction. In any case, very excited for the coming research!

What code does is the least intetesting part of it for you?

Idk, AI use doesn’t automatically make something slop just like writing by hand doesn’t automatically make it good.

Open source developers do not have the power to enact change. AI needs regulation which must come from governments.

Definitely agree with a lot of that. Indeed in this era of abundance why do we need to squeeze more and more out of everything.

However computing has been one of the most valuable inventions of all time. A script is usually written to automate a process. If the script doesn’t work, it’s useless. Not all disciplines are the same. The value of the code is what it does.

You can certainly talk about the horrors of AI under capitalism but i don’t think open source developers should have to think about it. I’d rather they make software better for everyone than get tied up thinking about how to solve the impossible.

Yeah but that’s art. Code is very much a means to an end. Code can be artistic i suppose but it does actually have to do something at the end of the day. And if it works it works.

Here’s a better chart with data until 2024. China really does need to start reducing their emissions soon or they’re gonna fuck us all.

Agree. If bad actors are using models to exploit any possible vulnerability, how could developers possibly keep up without modern tools?

I know this is fuckAI but still. It kinda feels like people want to write a book by hand when a computer is available. A noble pursuit but not a popular one.

Yeah completely agree with that but i don’t see how capitalism can stop open source. Capitalism runs on open source!

I just don’t know if that’s true. Yes there are vibe coded projects everywhere but most of them can be ignored. They don’t really have a bearing on the popular stable projects. Those projects will continue to be developed and as long as they don’t accept vibe commits the quality won’t go down.

I don’t know how open source could be labelled unsafe when the code is there for everyone to see. Yes Google is trying to lock down Android but that’s not an AI problem, that’s a capitalism problem.

Even then, i can’t see how corporations could kill open source. They can never stop people using their free time to develop code and releasing it under GPL.

How?

Indeed! It’s more inportant than ever to switch to open source software, which is why i dont see the point in placing restrictions on developers.

GPL is a response to copyright laws. If there were no copyright laws we wouldn’t need GPL.

Prohibiton doesn’t work. Regulations need to passed by government bodies not open source developers.

I’m not disputing that AI has severe issues. I think it’s more appropriate for governments to focus on effective regulation than open source developers disallowing useful tools.