Posts Tagged ‘matter’

‘Twisted’ solution to antimatter vs. matter

U. WARWICK (UK) — Physicists may have neglected the significant effect of our galaxy’s rotation on the pattern of how subatomic particles breakdown, a new study suggests. Continue…

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Impulsive neutrinos change their flavor

U. COLORADO-BOULDER (US) — Neutrinos can spontaneously change flavors, a finding that may help explain why the universe is made up mostly of matter. (more…)

Science & Technology - May 9, 2011 14:44 - 1 Comment

Hot soup of super heavy antimatter

UC DAVIS (US) — Smashing gold together almost a billion times has resulted in the creation of the heaviest form of antimatter ever found. (more…)

What matters in universe’s asymmetry

SYRACUSE U. (US) — A study of the decay of a rare particle present right after the Big Bang could help solve the mystery of why the universe evolved to have more matter than antimatter. (more…)

Science & Technology - Dec 17, 2010 15:22 - 1 Comment

How to create something from nothing

U. MICHIGAN (US) — Under just the right conditions—which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator—it could be possible to generate matter and antimatter from a vacuum. (more…)

Science & Technology - Feb 24, 2010 12:09 - 0 Comments

Measuring matter hotter than the sun

VANDERBILT (US)—Scientists have created an exotic state of matter with a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius. It’s the hottest temperature ever achieved in a laboratory and 250,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun. (more…)