Browsing Archive: January, 2014

Hyperfine Antihydrogen

Posted by on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, In : Particle Physics 
In the previous article, I discussed the claim by the ASACUSA experiment at CERN that they had produced the first man-made beam of anti-hydrogren atoms. Now comes the question of what to do with the beam...

Antimatter, first predicted to exist in the 1928 in a research paper by Paul Dirac and experimentally verified in 1932 by Carl Anderson, is in a sense a mirror image of ordinary matter. Antiparticles have the same mass, but opposite electric charge of their ordinary partners. And fundamenta...
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The First Antihydrogen Beam

Posted by on Tuesday, January 28, 2014, In : Particle Physics 
Exciting new results have been announced by the ASACUSA Experiment at CERN today. The team has been reviewing data they collected in 2012 in the Antiproton Decelerator facility, and have confirmed that they had produced a beam of antihydrogen. If this holds up under peer review and academic scrutiny, it will be the first anti-matter beam of atoms ever produced by mankind. 

In the late 1920s, work by Paul Dirac to understand relativistic quantum mechanics lead to an odd result - his equations p...
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Supernova in the Neighbourhood

Posted by on Thursday, January 23, 2014, In : Astronomy 
More amazing news from the astronomy community this morning - a new supernova (dubbed PSN J09554214+6940260) has just been discovered. Normally this would be a non-issue, since they are discovered constantly at big observatories, however this one is in the M82 galaxy which is in our cosmic neighbourhood at a mere 12 million light years from Earth. That means that this supernova should be visible to backyard astronomers using binoculars, and will allow the professional scientists to gather hug...
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Rosetta is Awake!

Posted by on Monday, January 20, 2014, In : Astronomy 
There is great news from the European Space Agency for the astronomy/astrophysics community this morning as their Rosetta space probe has successfully awoken from its long hibernation and is ready to do some science!

The goal of the Rosetta mission is to be the first man-made device to orbit a comet - in this case Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. If everything goes as planned, the orbiter will then deploy a lander that will park itself on the comet's nucleus, and ride it as it travels into the...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   

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