Astro Hacker News - Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

bozdemir |next [-]

That's matter cruelty. We need more ethical ways to study those poor things. Does anyone know what happened after the experiment ? Did they finally let it go?

gcascio |root |parent |next [-]

Matter rights matter.

Scarblac |root |parent [-]

But antimatter rights antimatter? Or do they become lefts.

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consensus1 |root |parent |previous [-]

It's worse than that. They annihilated it completely.

mixtureoftakes |root |parent [-]

Drawing the line at matter welfare when the world still has this much human suffering will never stop being wild to me

pelagicAustral |root |parent [-]

Definitely a matter of perspective.

pizzafeelsright |next |previous [-]

of course the cyclotron going clockwise.

dguest |next |previous [-]

Direct link to article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08147

jimnotgym |next |previous [-]

I hope they took precautions against the Camerlengo stealing it

ButlerianJihad |root |parent [-]

Positrons are just as Catholic as electrons: they both have the same mass!

snailshare |previous [-]

Does this hurt the positron?

brenkc |root |parent |next [-]

Call PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Antimatter)

sirlancer |root |parent [-]

Physicists for the Ethical Treatment of Atoms

arj |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Poor thing, all alone

Razengan |root |parent [-]

It could have been an entire universe, like ours, if some theories/cosmologies are correct :)

ggyyyg |root |parent |previous [-]

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