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.
Folks, if you think publishing a scientific paper is hard (it is), formally publishing a comment on a scientific paper will make you want to scream until there is no blood left in your body.
Can you imagine the shitposts that would be on science papers if they didn’t have that kind of process?
Yeah. No. That process as stated has numerous beaurocratic contradictions and is heavily, heavily biased in favor of the authors, even if they are trivially demonstrably wrong.
There's no defending this. Weening this labyrinth insanity down to something reasonable will not cause scientific literature to be inundated with shitposts.
There is nothing acceptable, or scientific, about what happened there. Actively preventing peer review is, in fact, the opposite of good science.
edit: in fact you could make a good argument that the original paper was, itself, a shitpost, considering how bad it is, and all the process did is defend a shitpost.
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Can you imagine the shitposts that would be on science papers if they didn’t have that kind of process?
Yeah. No. That process as stated has numerous beaurocratic contradictions and is heavily, heavily biased in favor of the authors, even if they are trivially demonstrably wrong.
There's no defending this. Weening this labyrinth insanity down to something reasonable will not cause scientific literature to be inundated with shitposts.
There is nothing acceptable, or scientific, about what happened there. Actively preventing peer review is, in fact, the opposite of good science.
edit: in fact you could make a good argument that the original paper was, itself, a shitpost, considering how bad it is, and all the process did is defend a shitpost.
So what you’re saying is there’s no stopping shitposts?
Fun stuff reading that thread and immediately seeing a guy mansplaining how she's making them wrong.
As someone who knows nothing about the subject, I thought her approach of doing a quick pour-in-pour-out of beeswax was a super-clever way of sealing and smoothing the inside of the mould with a substance guaranteed to be non-toxic and to cleanly break away from the finished product.
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Like, by way of example: we were doing insulin. The insulin was in glass vials, that we packed in corrugated plastic boxes of ~330, and then we'd put 4 of those boxes in a corrugated cardboard box. If that box, which represented 3 layers of material between the product and the outside world, was set on the floor instead of on a pallet, it became trash.
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In children’s terms, the study found that if people reduce meat eating by a lot, emissions would fall a lot.
Daily Mail was like...Biden wants to cut emissions by a lot. Therefore, he’ll force people to reduce meat eating by the same amount this random study looked at.
There are plenty of legitimate things to hate about Biden but the Daily Mail and Fox News aren't at all interested in them
The rationed hamburgers as part of Comrade AOC socialist future thing has been a outrage point since before the green new deal even had a name, and no one has ever suggested anyone won't get to a hamburger
It's just the same "Democrats want to take your X" bullshit they've been peddling for decades. They know the truth, they just don't give a fuck because it doesn't advance their narrative.
It's just the same "Democrats want to take your X" bullshit they've been peddling for decades. They know the truth, they just don't give a fuck because it doesn't advance their narrative.
which has also worked for decades because Democrats are always reactive instead of active, and their reactions are never stronger than "er, uh, nuh-uh!" and often are nothing more than deafening silence
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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
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
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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I'm putting my ass in instead. I do this for science!
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Folks, if you think publishing a scientific paper is hard (it is), formally publishing a comment on a scientific paper will make you want to scream until there is no blood left in your body.
Yeah. No. That process as stated has numerous beaurocratic contradictions and is heavily, heavily biased in favor of the authors, even if they are trivially demonstrably wrong.
There's no defending this. Weening this labyrinth insanity down to something reasonable will not cause scientific literature to be inundated with shitposts.
There is nothing acceptable, or scientific, about what happened there. Actively preventing peer review is, in fact, the opposite of good science.
edit: in fact you could make a good argument that the original paper was, itself, a shitpost, considering how bad it is, and all the process did is defend a shitpost.
But that probably would have limited their chances at being published again.
So what you’re saying is there’s no stopping shitposts?
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Fun stuff reading that thread and immediately seeing a guy mansplaining how she's making them wrong.
As someone who knows nothing about the subject, I thought her approach of doing a quick pour-in-pour-out of beeswax was a super-clever way of sealing and smoothing the inside of the mould with a substance guaranteed to be non-toxic and to cleanly break away from the finished product.
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Like, by way of example: we were doing insulin. The insulin was in glass vials, that we packed in corrugated plastic boxes of ~330, and then we'd put 4 of those boxes in a corrugated cardboard box. If that box, which represented 3 layers of material between the product and the outside world, was set on the floor instead of on a pallet, it became trash.
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it's just a screaming cowboy kind of day
There are plenty of legitimate things to hate about Biden but the Daily Mail and Fox News aren't at all interested in them
The rationed hamburgers as part of Comrade AOC socialist future thing has been a outrage point since before the green new deal even had a name, and no one has ever suggested anyone won't get to a hamburger
which has also worked for decades because Democrats are always reactive instead of active, and their reactions are never stronger than "er, uh, nuh-uh!" and often are nothing more than deafening silence
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/contractor-that-ruined-15m-doses-of-jj-vaccine-is-holding-up-vaccine-to-india/#p3