https://phys.org/news/2021-03-canadian-built-laser-chills-antimatter-absolute.html Researchers achieve world's first manipulation of antimatter by laser An artistic illustration of the movement of an antihydrogen atom in the ALPHA magnetic trap, before (grey) and after (blue) laser cooling. The images show various lengths of the antihydrogen's track. Credit: Chukman So/TRIUMF
Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world's first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of antimatter down to near absolute zero.
Is this cooler than what it sounds like, I have no idea to be honest
I have no idea what the significance of this achievement is but it sure sounds cool, it involves both antimatter AND lasers!
Probably useful for doing more experiments on antimatter to test weird physics stuff.
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Yeah this is the main goal of the experiment. They want to verify that antimatter obeys the same laws of gravity. First see which direction it falls in, then hopefully set some bounds on how fast.
If you want to measure which way something falls, first you need to make sure it's completely still at the start.
This sounds exceptionally basic and it is, but it is also something that hasn't been done yet, and is very difficult.
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Researchers achieve world's first manipulation of antimatter by laser
An artistic illustration of the movement of an antihydrogen atom in the ALPHA magnetic trap, before (grey) and after (blue) laser cooling. The images show various lengths of the antihydrogen's track. Credit: Chukman So/TRIUMF
Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world's first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of antimatter down to near absolute zero.
Is this cooler than what it sounds like, I have no idea to be honest
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It's still pretty cool to just be near it.
Probably useful for doing more experiments on antimatter to test weird physics stuff.
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Yeah this is the main goal of the experiment. They want to verify that antimatter obeys the same laws of gravity. First see which direction it falls in, then hopefully set some bounds on how fast.
If you want to measure which way something falls, first you need to make sure it's completely still at the start.
This sounds exceptionally basic and it is, but it is also something that hasn't been done yet, and is very difficult.
Man what kind of advanced science we gettin up to, writing algos to sell more non-durable hunks of cheap material or something
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put your goddamn hand in the goddamn magnetic box'o'confinement
I'm putting my ass in instead. I do this for science!
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