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Teleportation, time travel, antimatter and wireless electricity. It all sounds far-fetched, more fiction than fact, but it's all true.
In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed. According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy.
2010-05-17
cosmology antimatter matter philosophy Big Bang annihilation physicsThere may be multiple versions of the elusive "God particle" - or Higgs boson - according to a new study.
2010-06-14
Higgs boson cosmology antimatter mass physics LHCThe results of a high-profile Fermilab physics experiment involving a University of Michigan professor appear to confirm strange 20-year-old findings that poke holes in the standard model, suggesting the existence of a new elementary particle: a fourth flavor of neutrino.
2010-11-02
physics philosophy elementary particle neutrino symmetry antimatterA space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out streams of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.
2011-01-11
antimatter thunderstorm lightning positron gamma rayNeutrinos are among the fundamental building blocks of matter. They swarm all about us. The Sun, for example, releases them in huge quantities when it fuses hydrogen to make helium - the raw nuclear process at its core. They are, however, very difficult to study because they interact so weakly with normal matter. Hence, their nickname - "ghost particles". Nonetheless, scientists have been able to discern three flavours - electron...
2011-06-15
neutrino particle physics nuclear cosmology antimatter universe Big BangUS particle physicists are inching closer to determining why the Universe exists in its current form, made overwhelmingly of matter.
2011-07-01
antimatter physics quantum physics Universe cosmologyA thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time.
2011-08-07
physics antimatter proton magnet Van Allen belt planet Solar System space travel fuelPhysicists have taken a step forward in their efforts to understand why the Universe is dominated by matter, and not its shadowy opposite antimatter.
2012-02-29
antimatter cosmology physics mater universeThe Majorana fermion was first predicted 75 years ago - a particle that could be its own anti-particle.
2012-04-13
quantum physics antimatter Majorana physics particle