Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Anti-matter




Positron Production



Credit: DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Physicist Hui Chen sets up targets for the anti-matter experiment at the Jupiter laser facility.



Anti-matter spewed out from golden plasma. :-)


Sorry, I couldn't help myself. It is less dramatic than those headlines. It is just that we've discovered how to mass produce positrons in a laboratory. Positrons being the real name of the anti matter here...,-)




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