OMFG
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Isn't anti-matter suppose to ....you know...explode when introduced to normal matter? Somebody is wrong somewhere in this mess.
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Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
Isn't anti-matter suppose to ....you know...explode when introduced to normal matter? Somebody is wrong somewhere in this mess.Where did you hear that?! From a novel, maybe?
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Uzumaki101 wrote...
Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
Isn't anti-matter suppose to ....you know...explode when introduced to normal matter? Somebody is wrong somewhere in this mess.Where did you hear that?! From a novel, maybe?
No... It's part of physics. -_-
And they probably did the experiment in a completely sealed vacuum chamber, to prevent any outside matter/antimatter interactions.
Although, I must say, while the content of the article seems plausible at least, the article itself seems a bit dodgy...
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They have to create anti-matter in magnetic "jars" that keep the particles centred otherwise they fly off into any nearby matter and annihilate it. Even when they try and store them it typically doesn't last all that long regardless due to its volatility.
As far as I can tell this seems legitimate. Hui Chen's name brings up more than just this article and has some other particle physics relations. I'm not particularly well equipped to determine her exactly quality as a physicist.
As far as I can tell this seems legitimate. Hui Chen's name brings up more than just this article and has some other particle physics relations. I'm not particularly well equipped to determine her exactly quality as a physicist.
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It seems pretty reliable...
Although they shouldn't be using the word "create," but I guess that's just semantics. You know, law of conservation of mass and energy. They aren't "creating" antimatter, they are altering electrons to decay into antimatter.
Which I guess proves all the people who ever said artificailly introducing antimatter into the universe would destroy it wrong.
Although they shouldn't be using the word "create," but I guess that's just semantics. You know, law of conservation of mass and energy. They aren't "creating" antimatter, they are altering electrons to decay into antimatter.
Which I guess proves all the people who ever said artificailly introducing antimatter into the universe would destroy it wrong.
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Uzumaki101 wrote...
Fiery_penguin_of_doom wrote...
Isn't anti-matter suppose to ....you know...explode when introduced to normal matter? Somebody is wrong somewhere in this mess.Where did you hear that?! From a novel, maybe?
A novel? No
A physics book? Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
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Dante1214 wrote...
It seems pretty reliable... Although they shouldn't be using the word "create," but I guess that's just semantics. You know, law of conservation of mass and energy. They aren't "creating" antimatter, they are altering electrons to decay into antimatter.
Which I guess proves all the people who ever said artificailly introducing antimatter into the universe would destroy it wrong.
It probably doesn't stop them from fearing it. People were pretty retarded about the LHC, it did nothing, and people are still trying to shut it down permanently.
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oh fuck it's another gundam scenario... some governments gonna take this shit and put it in some robot that their gonna name GUNDAM
G-GARGANTUAN
U-UNIT
N-NEUTRAL
D-DESTRUCTING
A-ANIME
M-MOBILE
G-GARGANTUAN
U-UNIT
N-NEUTRAL
D-DESTRUCTING
A-ANIME
M-MOBILE
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blind_assassin wrote...
Dante1214 wrote...
It seems pretty reliable... Although they shouldn't be using the word "create," but I guess that's just semantics. You know, law of conservation of mass and energy. They aren't "creating" antimatter, they are altering electrons to decay into antimatter.
Which I guess proves all the people who ever said artificailly introducing antimatter into the universe would destroy it wrong.
It probably doesn't stop them from fearing it. People were pretty retarded about the LHC, it did nothing, and people are still trying to shut it down permanently.
That's cuz it was a test run, and then it broke. :P
At the time of posting, we have 131 days before it fires up again. Assuming that it doesn't break. AGAIN.
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Most of the doomsday retards feared it simply being turned on. The retards with any sort of science knowledge feared the collisions; of which none happened. What I don't understand is why people still fear the LHC when it's just a big particle collider. Other colliders exist and are currently functioning and have been in use for years without making strangelets or whatever foolishness the doomsayers are spouting.
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blind_assassin wrote...
Most of the doomsday retards feared it simply being turned on. The retards with any sort of science knowledge feared the collisions; of which none happened. What I don't understand is why people still fear the LHC when it's just a big particle collider. Other colliders exist and are currently functioning and have been in use for years without making strangelets or whatever foolishness the doomsayers are spouting.But look at this:
Spoiler:
If that's true, then we're all fucked.
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Destructoid followed a story where someone took it upon themselves to mail CERN a crowbar with the message "When the time comes, give this to Doctor Freeman. He'll know what to do." laughs were had by all.
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blind_assassin wrote...
Destructoid followed a story where someone took it upon themselves to mail CERN a crowbar with the message "When the time comes, give this to Doctor Freeman. He'll know what to do." laughs were had by all.Hillarity.
Of course, now because the LHC done broked, peopl are saying it was just a huge waste of time and money. Although, in a machine so large, with so many parts, including the four experiments, probability states that it's almost impossible for it all to work exactly in the way it was meant to.
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Dante1214 wrote...
blind_assassin wrote...
Destructoid followed a story where someone took it upon themselves to mail CERN a crowbar with the message "When the time comes, give this to Doctor Freeman. He'll know what to do." laughs were had by all.Hillarity.
Of course, now because the LHC done broked, peopl are saying it was just a huge waste of time and money. Although, in a machine so large, with so many parts, including the four experiments, probability states that it's almost impossible for it all to work exactly in the way it was meant to.
People need to realise that it is almost certainly the most complex thing ever built by humanity in the history of ever so it's bound to be pretty damn complex. And the problem was a bloody helium leak and not a computer malfunction. The only reason repairs are taking so long is that they have to spend months warming the thing up properly. I'm sure actually patching the damage, doing the checks for other potential problems, and refilling the helium will take like two weeks.
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People are just stupid in this day of age. Everything, everywhere, made by everyone is going to bring about the destruction of humanity. Sometimes I think people fear scientific progress though I can understand a little rational fear (oxymoron). If it's not stepping on gods toes then it'll destroy humanity.
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blind_assassin wrote...
Dante1214 wrote...
blind_assassin wrote...
Destructoid followed a story where someone took it upon themselves to mail CERN a crowbar with the message "When the time comes, give this to Doctor Freeman. He'll know what to do." laughs were had by all.Hillarity.
Of course, now because the LHC done broked, peopl are saying it was just a huge waste of time and money. Although, in a machine so large, with so many parts, including the four experiments, probability states that it's almost impossible for it all to work exactly in the way it was meant to.
People need to realise that it is almost certainly the most complex thing ever built by humanity in the history of ever so it's bound to be pretty damn complex. And the problem was a bloody helium leak and not a computer malfunction. The only reason repairs are taking so long is that they have to spend months warming the thing up properly. I'm sure actually patching the damage, doing the checks for other potential problems, and refilling the helium will take like two weeks.
I thought one of the magnets broke. :?
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Klorofolun wrote...
blind_assassin wrote...
Dante1214 wrote...
blind_assassin wrote...
Destructoid followed a story where someone took it upon themselves to mail CERN a crowbar with the message "When the time comes, give this to Doctor Freeman. He'll know what to do." laughs were had by all.Hillarity.
Of course, now because the LHC done broked, peopl are saying it was just a huge waste of time and money. Although, in a machine so large, with so many parts, including the four experiments, probability states that it's almost impossible for it all to work exactly in the way it was meant to.
People need to realise that it is almost certainly the most complex thing ever built by humanity in the history of ever so it's bound to be pretty damn complex. And the problem was a bloody helium leak and not a computer malfunction. The only reason repairs are taking so long is that they have to spend months warming the thing up properly. I'm sure actually patching the damage, doing the checks for other potential problems, and refilling the helium will take like two weeks.
I thought one of the magnets broke. :?
Nah; thankfully. If it totally kersploded then it would cost tens of millions of dollars to fix it and everyone would be really bitching about fixing it especially due to the economy dying.
It probably would have taken a while for any significant damage to be done though. The leak was small enough to only raise the temperature by 2 Kelvin or whatever weird measurement they were using. It wasn't going to superheat in like 10 minutes and turn into a pile of liquid magma but they decided that was too hot for it work.
