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reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 03:44 AM by Eitimzevinten
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It will give us information like smashing two window panes gives us insight into how glass is made. You will get chunks of unique shapes yet when you place them together you do not get a solid piece of glass. We'll see what it's composed of but not necessarily deep insight into how exactly it was made (the melting of sand).

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reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 03:57 AM by RuneSpider
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Actually, it's much more complicated than that.
One of the things that gets created is antimatter, something that is very useful in helping to understand how everything was created.

And as for a pane of glass, in this instance we are more disassembling than shattering. We already have a good idea how atoms are constructed, how the base elements come together, ect.
The purpose of this experiment is to go beyond that, and see what is perhaps the founding point of all matter.



reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 04:05 AM by Eitimzevinten
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While I'm skeptical that this is the best approach, the fact that anti-matter is an end result is interesting on a number of levels. To my knowledge, when they isolated anti-hydrogen, it was anti the whole way through down to the quarks. Would it then be possible to theorize a process in which matter changes polarity?

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reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 04:38 AM by RuneSpider
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I'm not a physicist, and only got the gist from watching a program.
My understanding is that the atoms are forced back to their creation in the process, and that the creation of a anti-matter atom is something of a 50/50 chance.
Eventually, you end up with a anti-matter atom.

However, my understanding of the process is... severely limited. it's enough to get the concept, but beyond that...


reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 04:45 AM by RuneSpider
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We can create anti-matter. However, not in large quantities.

And, consideirng that it would be much more destructive than nuclear tech, it'll be a long time before it works it's way towards being a energy source.


reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 04:47 AM by Eitimzevinten
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I'm no expert either. I read that isolating anti-helium would take several billions of years in order to account for the small probability if it was done in the same way they isolated anti-hydrogen. It could happen on the first attempt which is the funny thing about statistics, anything above 0 is as good as 99%. All that leads into we could just as easily been an anti-matter universe and maybe even open the door for temporarily neutral matter. I'm pretty sure we won't make mini black holes and any results would be interesting because its not like we can observe these things elsewhere.

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reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 04:51 AM by Eitimzevinten
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The energy released is like a lightning bolt uniting positive and negative charges into one burst of energy. When that comes at the expense of matter, it a much MUCH more violent discharge.


reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 04:42 PM by Neo Christian Mystic
Originally posted by RuneSpider
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We can create anti-matter. However, not in large quantities.


How can you weigh something with negative to neutral mass? You must weigh reality....



Edit: Since everybody was waving around about antimatter and bd or black matter. The real spacepuff...

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Edit: and how do you handle a potentially selfreplicating nanodroid from spreading throughout the world, and wake up to the weirdest morning......

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reply posted on 23-5-2009 @ 07:09 PM by RuneSpider
Here's the wiki article on antimatter:
en.wikipedia.org...

Cern Website:
public.web.cern.ch...

And if you want to keep up to date on finds, you need to find some science news websites.
I've subscribed to a couple of archaeology ones, and keep an eye on a few blogs I enjoy.
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