The Most Volatile Substance Known to Man
 

this coudl solve all world energy problems...

ANTIMATTER

Some facts about the birthplace of antimatter...
European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)

Antimatter is routinely produced at CERN (more than 10 million particles per second.)
The World-wide Web was invented at CERN. The world's largest magnet, weighing more than the Eiffel tower, is at CERN. CERN's biggest accelerator is 27 kilometers around, and particles travelling near the speed of light lap it over 11,000 times each second.

PRESS RELEASE

Copyright © 1996 Reuters Information Service

European scientists create first antimatter atoms GENEVA (Jan 4, 1996 7:04 p.m. EST) - European scientists have managed to create fleeting atoms of antimatter for the first time, bringing a dream of science fiction a step closer to fact.

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) said Thursday nine anti-hydrogen atoms were created in experiments last September, although each lasted only about 40 billionths of a second before being annihilated by ordinary matter.

"If you watch 'Star Trek', you'll know the USS Enterprise was driven by antimatter power," said CERN spokesman Neil Calder in a reference to the U.S. cult television series. "We're not there yet, but this is a major step."

Physicists have known about or suspected the existence of antimatter for more than 60 years and the first anti-particles were created in laboratories in the 1950s.

But they had never been able to bring those particles together to form actual atoms of antimatter.

The experiments at CERN, which straddles the Franco-Swiss border by Geneva, were conducted by a team led by German Professor Walter Oelert of Nuremberg University and including scientists from the University of Genoa in Italy.

Since the gas hydrogen has the simplest atom of all, consisting of a proton and a single electron, they set out to create anti-hydrogen by combining an antiproton with an anti-electron or positron.

The team whirled previously created antiprotons through a underground circular atom smasher, passing them through a xenon gas jet every time they passed around -- about three million times a second.

Very occasionally, CERN said in a communiqué, an antiproton converted a small part of its energy into an electron and positron while passing through a xenon atom.

"In even rarer cases, the positron's velocity was sufficiently close to the velocity of the antiproton for the two particles to join -- creating an atom of anti-hydrogen," it added.

During a three-week period, nine anti-hydrogen atoms were created in collisions between antiprotons and xenon atoms. Each one existed for only 40 billionths of a second, traveling at nearly the speed of light for about 33 feet before being annihilated or canceled out by ordinary matter.

The only sign the scientists had that the anti-atoms had ever existed was the energy produced by the annihilation. Science fiction writers have long considered the explosion of matter and antimatter to be the energy source of the future.

Calder said CERN had not wanted to release Oelert's findings until they had been "checked, double-checked and triple-checked" by other scientists and accepted for publication in a respected physics journal.

CERN specialists say the next step is to develop techniques to store antimatter for seconds, minutes or weeks. They could then compare anti-hydrogen atoms with ordinary hydrogen atoms.

Because antimatter technology is changing so rapidly, links provided here would become outdated almost overnight. For the most recent information on this topic, enter "antimatter" into your favorite search engine.

cool, Jimmy Nuetron

*gay voice*
nice one bill...

Wont Wek, Itll Put The Petroleum And Electric Companys Out Of Bizzniss...The US Wont Have That...Theyll Kill You And Take Your Oil..But wont Help Make The World A Better place

Oi...I hate science.

But thank god for the people that like it, :D

who cares. WTF is this?

Uhh...cool...maybe we can have flying cars now, or whatever this stuff is supposed to do. I really could care less until I see some proof or results.

yeah i heard that they cant even prove or record or make any type of experament
that would even state a solid fact that anti matter even exist but they no it does

well one thing they can use it for.. is for unlimited fuel for space shuttles..

like the idiots on the usss enterprise... in star trek.

Do you sir, wear glasses..?

But yeah very interesting.

Well if this proves to be true then dope..

What i wanna know is why in the hell is there a magnet that weighs more than the eiffel tower???

This was wayyyyyyy to much to read..l.ol...but interesting

I heard something about this a couple of days ago, glad you posted this.

It's interesting stuff, the future is now. It's crazy to see how technology is advancing by the day.

Somewhat frightening too.

if you can create energy - you will make billions.....so my science teacher told me anyway..lol

i agree with the wayyy to much to read my eyes are about to burst
i read half of it but didnt really cat my attention
im not a science fan

Interesting

The pearls of Anit-matter research are generations away, and in that future it will serve the world well. We must always set our sights on the future, yet some more tangible work, due to have a huge impact on the very near future, is at hand. I think we will make more head room as advances in the fourth stage of matter are upon us. Traditionally we have learned in our science classes the three stages of matter being, Solid, liquid, and gas... Research has long been underway on the unknown and unpopular concept of matters fourth stage... Plasma, this form of matter will prove to be very important to advances in energy and weapons capabilites. Currently there are many research faclities collaberating to an extent on this Ionispheric phenom. Much is known, yet much is to be learned. Very adverse conditions in that region of atmoshere cause the Aurora lights, as seen from earth. Super heated matter in the third stage (gas) is transformed into plasma, and is believed to be associated with transmisson anomolies commonly known in the broadcasting arena. Ok, lets break it down to simple terms. You bradcast a radio wave from point A, with very little power to travel long distances, most transmission would be held to Line Of Sight bounderies (small distance) Yet durring specific times the very same transmission, can be reflected (skipped) off the ionisphere and carried around to the other side of the world. No one really understood why, but it became a common practice of the braodcasting industry, to use this region of our atmosphere for such purposes. Frequency modulated and amplitude modulated signals (FM/AM) would carry further than expected. It seems as if the abundace of super heated gases aka Plasma, (the very same type that forms around the body of the spaceshuttle during reentry) act as an accelerating agent for specific wavelengthed transimissions. This concept is well worth the amount of research being funded by several governments. If we can effectively reproduce the effect plasma has on radio transmissions, we can use that technology for many applications, both military and commercial. It's ground breaking and will prove to be key to further exploring the deepths of space...

I always thought the most volatile substance known to man was...

"Deeez nuts!"

Sorry, was listening to The Chronic on the way in this morning!

^No, that's the most 'swollow-able' substance known to woMAN!

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This Shit Is Dumb

Yeah only really dumb people would know anything about this, I am sure... :thumbup:

well said. the only problem with antimatter at the moment is that to make even one of those particles it probably cost them $100,000's of dollars, so in terms of a useful, appliable antimatter engine, it most liekly won't be in our lifetimes. and also, if u don't have one of thise eiffel tower magnets, the damn stuff escapes and blows up nething it touches. so if u had a big one, u could probably blow up some serious shit. who knows, maybe the next wmd will be an antimatter bomb. for the mo though, that would involve dropping a particle accelerator on you're enemy, so we're safe from that for now.

Great...the world is now one stop closer to destruction. Well, at least we might have the technology to fly away into outerspace as someone drops that anti-matter bomb that destroys the world. Have you guys even thought about that aspect of the subject? Seriously, screw Nukes. These bombs will make Nukes look like bottle rockets. This will be an awesome thing for man kind...just so long as we don't use them for weaponry. If we do...this world is doomed.

indeed. don't worry htough, u won't see nething that nasty in you're lifetime. and i don't think nebody would be crazy enough to drop a bomb like that neways. probably waste half the planet, knock teh earth off orbit and send us hurtling towards the sun. know who would do saomthign crazy like that? good job ol george bush will be gone by then otherwise we'd all be screwed, the trigger happy gun nut that he is.

Oh yeah you mention him prior to all the fucken lunitics out there in the world. I mean do you even know how pathetic that sound's, in contrast to the real threats in the world. Once Saddam perfected his nuke, five minutes later he would have been testing it on most likey Isreal. Yet Bush sit's on the most powerful arsenal known to man ever, yet he has done nothing to earn the light you just put him in. I was really thinking you had some potential, I thought your post's were intellegent up until now.
Laughable

lol. some people take what i say too seriously. a joke is a joke after all. i don't seriously think bush would start firining off antimatter missiles. in britain though, it's commaon practice to insult bush at every available oppurtunity, regardless of if whether there's a more suitable or valid person to take the piss out of. tv sketch shows always portray him as a naive gun nut that tapes over threats from bin laden with episodes of sesame street. so they're u go. when somebody goes to war for nuclear missiles and chemical weapons that he claimed were in somebodys possesion only to find they weren't there without any real evidence they were, he's obviously gonna get a reputation as somebody completely gung ho and trigger happy.