A trapped positron, cooled almost to absolute zero and held away from every wall, can now be nudged one quantum at a time to test antimatter.
The Vatican better have Robert Langdon on speed dial.
researchers successfully trapped one piece for months
What a terrible headline. What do you mean usually? Implying there are instances where matter and antimatter come in contact with each other and don’t annihilate? That makes no sense at all.
Also it doesn’t vanish at all, nothing inside our universe can ever be created or removed, it’s a zero sum game. It can only go from one state to another. In case of matter and antimatter, it gets converted into energy.
“Transformed from matter into energy” can be more or less accurately described as vanishing.
“nothing inside our universe can ever be created or removed”, I hate to tell you about Quantum Fluctuations and hawking radiation
Hawking radiation doesn’t violate this principe. It’s converting the mass of the black hole into subatomic particles outside the event horizon.
The headline smells sloppy to me. A bit close to the super common pattern of “Z did Y to an X, and it W”
I didn’t notice it in the article itself (and even saw a typo) but I’m not terribly sensitive to that stuff anyway.
I got that feeling too. “The exact second it touches” is another tell, since even a layman knows that this happens on a timescale much smaller than seconds. A human would write “the exact instance” or “at the precise moment” or something that specifies the instantaneity of it.
The original paper/article is here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/gbkc-6nlj
That positron is gonna be PISSED when it finally gets out. Everything will be fine, I’m sure.
“Imma annihilate so hard!”
This headline is basically: Not consuming water is usually fatal, but nutritionists find food contains water
A pointless non-sequitur
