Reply to: Antimatter trapped

[TimberWolf]

BBC News - Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth

[scooterscot]

Some uncertainty about Heisenberg?

More info here:

Watching Photons Interfere: "Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer" : Uncertain Principles

[Cliphead]

Some uncertainty about Heisenberg?

[TimberWolf]

Bottled for a mammoth 15 minutes now, paving the way for experiments relating to such mysteries as to where all the missing antimatter has gone, i.e. half the matter not in the universe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...=feeds-newsxml

Nice bottle:

[lightng]

When I was littler and read sci-fi, I wanted to go to Alpha Centauri on one of the first colony ships.

FTFM

When I was littler and looked at pictures in comic books, I wanted to fly to Alpha Centauri under my own power - after spending several years basking in the earthlings yellow sun that is.

FTFM (version II)

When I was littler and looked at pictures in my nan's Littlewoods catalogue (pages 1162 - 1178), I wanted to ... unfortunately at this point my mum would always burst into the room and order me to wear my boxing gloves to bed (yet again).

[RichardCranium]

They haven't even found di-lithium yet.

It'll take a while to get to anti-uranium. .

And we'll need to get beyond the Anti-Island of Stability to get to building a matter/anti-matter di-lithium drive.

Arse.

When I was littler and read sci-fi, I wanted to go to Alpha Centauri on one of the first colony ships.

Yet we still don't have flying cars, jaunt belts or food pills.

[d000hg]

Colour when talking about individual atoms is a bit misleading though. I presume they are checking the (gaps between) energy levels of positrons around a -ve charge nucleus are equal.

[TimberWolf]

What colour is anti-matter?

Does it matter? Or should I say, does it antimatter? Anyway enough of the brilliant jokes:

It's the first thing they are going to look at according to this article. The big surprise will come if it's different to ordinary matter, together with much science being tipped into the bin.

[EternalOptimist]

Well, I always though that protons were red, electrons were blue and neutrons were yellow. Or was it grey?

no, electrons are orange, I'm positive

[Doggy Styles]

What colour is regular matter?

Well, I always though that protons were red, electrons were blue and neutrons were yellow. Or was it grey?

[d000hg]

What colour is anti-matter?

What colour is regular matter?

[EternalOptimist]

What colour is anti-matter?

nobody knows. because

because...er

just because.

[Doggy Styles]

What colour is anti-matter?

[OwlHoot]

There's a reason Iron is the "magic stopping point" but I forget why. Something to do with energy levels I suppose... you can get to Iron with each 'reaction' generating energy but beyond that you have to put energy in to create heavier nuclei?

nuclear binding energy

[OwlHoot]

Either way, all the atoms in our body heavier than helium were created in a star exploding. So we are all made of stardust.

About half of all the lithium around today was created within the first few minutes after the Big Bang (before any stars had formed).