Antimatter atoms caught at last

Alan Boyle writes:After years of effort, scientists have confirmed that they've corralled individual atoms of antimatter.

"We're over the moon," Aarhus University's Jeffrey Hangst, spokesman of the ALPHA collaboration at Europe's CERN particle-physics center, told me today. "I think this was the hardest step in the whole business."

Hangst and his ALPHA colleagues report the breakthrough in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

What's so big about making antimatter? On one level, it sounds like the sort of thing mad scientists would do -- for instance, in the Dan Brown thriller "Angels and Demons," which was made into a movie last year. But on a deeper level, studying antimatter sheds light on the fundamental structure of the universe.

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what you see isn't always as it seems.

I mean, what's wrong with matter that someone would be opposed to it? Matter is good. Being anti-matter just doesn't make any sense. Personally, I vote for matter in every election, and I don't care what anyone else things.

If you're anti-matter, you're probably on the wrong website. That's what I say! :mad:

:nuke: I'm against matter and I say YOU'RE the one on the wrong website. :dem:

Every so often, one will fly down my dryer vent and meet-up with a sock, where they mutually annihilate one another. Best explanation I can come up with for where those socks go.