Cern, set up and imprisoned antimatter
products for the first time in a controlled 38 anti-hydrogen atoms
The discovery "early" in the famous novel by Dan Brown "Angels and Demons'
The discovery "early" in the famous novel by Dan Brown "Angels and Demons'
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LONDON - A result that seems taken from a film. Atoms of antimatter were produced in the laboratory and "imprisoned" in an experiment conducted at CERN in Geneva. The result has been obtained from the experiment known as Alpha, which allowed for the first time in a controlled manner to produce atoms that have opposite characteristics to those of ordinary matter, as if reflected in a mirror. Were obtained 38 anti-hydrogen atoms and immobilized, in a scenario (albeit with some key differences) recalls the novel "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.
EXPERIMENT - As in the novel "Angels and Demons," in CERN in Geneva has been produced and trapped anti-matter, that matter "mirror" in which the particles have the same mass but opposite electrical charge than the ordinary matter. "But it is unthinkable to bring the antimatter for a walk in a bottle, as happens in the novel," says physicist Andrea Vacchi, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). It is sufficient that an anti-hydrogen atom is in contact with the material ordinary, such as a gas or with the same walls of the container, because a giant explosion takes place. Entering into contact, in fact, matter and antimatter cancel each other (or annihilate) each other. The great thing about the result announced today by CERN, obtained by the group of Jeffrey Hangst, is that it is now possible to produce antimatter and "parked" with a great precision. This means that from now on the 38 anti-hydrogen atoms become an extraordinary laboratory to finally put antimatter in comparison with ordinary matter. The hope is able to resolve one of the great puzzles of contemporary physics, namely at the Big Bang because nature has "preferred" ordinary matter antimatter. Both were in fact produced in the same amount (in a symmetrical manner) and thus should cancel each other out, but this did not happen because a certain amount of matter (calculated on a particle every 10 billion antimatter particles) was able to escape and thanks to this symmetry breaking has formed the world in which we live. What actually happened is still a mystery, but now physicists at CERN have unprecedented tools to do a little 'light.
LONDON - A result that seems taken from a film. Atoms of antimatter were produced in the laboratory and "imprisoned" in an experiment conducted at CERN in Geneva. The result has been obtained from the experiment known as Alpha, which allowed for the first time in a controlled manner to produce atoms that have opposite characteristics to those of ordinary matter, as if reflected in a mirror. Were obtained 38 anti-hydrogen atoms and immobilized, in a scenario (albeit with some key differences) recalls the novel "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.
EXPERIMENT - As in the novel "Angels and Demons," in CERN in Geneva has been produced and trapped anti-matter, that matter "mirror" in which the particles have the same mass but opposite electrical charge than the ordinary matter. "But it is unthinkable to bring the antimatter for a walk in a bottle, as happens in the novel," says physicist Andrea Vacchi, the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). It is sufficient that an anti-hydrogen atom is in contact with the material ordinary, such as a gas or with the same walls of the container, because a giant explosion takes place. Entering into contact, in fact, matter and antimatter cancel each other (or annihilate) each other. The great thing about the result announced today by CERN, obtained by the group of Jeffrey Hangst, is that it is now possible to produce antimatter and "parked" with a great precision. This means that from now on the 38 anti-hydrogen atoms become an extraordinary laboratory to finally put antimatter in comparison with ordinary matter. The hope is able to resolve one of the great puzzles of contemporary physics, namely at the Big Bang because nature has "preferred" ordinary matter antimatter. Both were in fact produced in the same amount (in a symmetrical manner) and thus should cancel each other out, but this did not happen because a certain amount of matter (calculated on a particle every 10 billion antimatter particles) was able to escape and thanks to this symmetry breaking has formed the world in which we live. What actually happened is still a mystery, but now physicists at CERN have unprecedented tools to do a little 'light.
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