How To Use Antimatter In A Sentence
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Those equations and present particle physics say that matter and antimatter are equivalent.
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But stabilize the matter-antimatter mix into a substance called positronium — as a couple of UC Riverside physicists did for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds — and you're on your way to turning that jolt into a focused, ultrapowerful laser.
WTF?! The Positronium Superlaser Is Almost Complete. Muh-ha-ha-ha!
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You wouldn't be able to tell by looking whether the black hole was originally formed by matter, antimatter or green cheese.
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But the device can also accelerate antiprotons, the antimatter equivalents of protons with the same mass but negative electric charge.
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But the device can also accelerate antiprotons, the antimatter equivalents of protons with the same mass but negative electric charge.
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Astronomers discovered through CGRO data that the center of our galaxy glows in gamma rays created by the annihilation of matter and antimatter.
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The definition of matter and antimatter is purely conventional.
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They have bored through the shields and placed antimatter charges.
METAPLANETARY
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This brief survey of recent Lorentz tests only lists those experiments involving light, ordinary matter, and antimatter.
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Theory suggests that, at the moment the universe was created, equal amounts of matter and antimatter were formed.
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In general, the distinction between matter and antimatter is somewhat arbitrary.
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But the device can also accelerate antiprotons, the antimatter equivalents of protons with the same mass but negative electric charge.
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But stabilize the matter-antimatter mix into a substance called positronium — as a couple of UC Riverside physicists did for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds — and you're on your way to turning that jolt into a focused, ultrapowerful laser.
WTF?! The Positronium Superlaser Is Almost Complete. Muh-ha-ha-ha!
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The simplest antiatom, antihydrogen, is made of an antiproton and a positron, the electron's antimatter counterpart.
New Scientist - Online News
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Indeed, the conflagration of a single gram of antimatter particles merging with their normal matter siblings would release energy equivalent to about 40 kilotons of TNT, or enough to power nearly 5,000 households for a year.
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Why is the universe made of matter and not equal parts of matter and antimatter?
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The history of antimatter begins with the physicist Paul Dirac whose work in the late 1920s established the fact that for every particle there is a corresponding antiparticle, exactly matching the particle but with opposite charge.
Santhosh Mathew, PhD: Seeking the Lost Seeds of Big Bang
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That story contained science fiction's first reference to contraterrene, or as we know it today, antimatter.
Jack's Shack
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The new truth reached by the discovery has recently also been incorporated as an important ingredient in cosmological speculations The aim has been to try to understand how a universe, originally very hot and symmetric, could avoid that matter and antimatter almost immediately annihilated each other.
Press Release: The 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics
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In the enormous densities of the early moments of the Big Bang the result would have been a catastrophic annihilation of matter and antimatter into radiation.
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The “beauty” quark is particularly good for probing this question because b-quarks and anti-b-quarks behave “more differently” than other particles and their antimatter counterparts.
B is for Beauty
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The creation of antimatter requires a ginormous amount of energy created at light-fast speeds.
Sharon Glassman: Angels and Demons -- Does Hollywood Science Equal Good Science?
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Paul Dirac predicted the existence of antimatter with his relativistic wave equation in 1928.
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This means that matter-antimatter annihilation theoretically produces the maximum amount of energy from a given amount of mass.
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As you watch, you'll see some of the matter-antimatter pairs of electrons collide, annihilating each other and creating gamma-ray photons once again.
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If matter and antimatter collide, they annihilate each other.
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Various propulsion schemes have been proposed, from nuclear fusion to antimatter to laser sails.
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When a particle or atom of antimatter comes into contact with a particle or atom of normal matter, both are annihilated and energy is released.
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Unfortunately, it seems extremely unlikely that predictable technology will be equipped to amass large quantities of antimatter.
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But the secret may be to use antimatter as fast as it is generated - a challenge for rocketeers of the twenty-first century.
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In the enormous densities of the early moments of the Big Bang the result would have been a catastrophic annihilation of matter and antimatter into radiation.
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Antimatter is matter composed of antiparticles, such as positrons, antineutrons and antiprotons.
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Unfortunately, it seems extremely unlikely that predictable technology will be equipped to amass large quantities of antimatter.
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The result of the prize-winning work showed for the first, time that the left-right asymmetry is not always completely compensated by transforming from matter to antimatter.
Press Release: The 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics
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He saw how magnetic traps could make antimatter useful in medicine, principally in tumor treatment.
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Matter and antimatter just don't mix, so it's surprising that you can probe one with the other.
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And so a billion particles of antimatter and a billion of matter annihilated each other and turned back into heat and one little teeny bit of matter was left over - and that's us.
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The answer to your question is, thus, clearly yes: matter would be created when antimatter particles collide at high energy.
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If there were no difference between matter and antimatter, both the B mesons and the anti-B mesons would exhibit exactly the same pattern of decays.
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The only Element she commonly dealt with was fire—in starfire and the matter-antimatter conflagration of her ship's engines.
My Enemy My Ally
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The positron is slowed down by the water and destroyed together with an electron (matter meets antimatter), whereupon two photons (light particles) are created.
Press Release: The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
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In the same way that matter is constituted of fundamental particles, antiparticles are the building blocks of antimatter.
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However, as successful as they are in tackling problems such as the origin of mass and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter, accelerators cannot keep achieving higher and higher energies.
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It therefore produces a lot of b quarks - and their antimatter counterparts, anti-b quarks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Demonstrating warp-drive capacity—which really amounts to little more than sustaining and harnessing the mutually annihilative reaction of matter and antimatter, as the Hranrarii have done—is what determines whether a culture has attained warp capability.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
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When particles of matter and particles of antimatter collide, large amounts of energy are produced as a by-product.
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They conclude that at the boundary of the domains it would be impossible to avoid matter-antimatter annihilation.
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I think you underestimate the effects of the instantaneous matter/antimatter annihilation of a billion tons.
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K-meson would have to be antimatter in exactly half the cases and in the other half, matter.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 - Presentation Speech
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He also predicted the existence of antimatter (specifically the antiparticle of the electron) that was later discovered in nature.
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In the enormous densities of the early moments of the Big Bang the result would have been a catastrophic annihilation of matter and antimatter into radiation.
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Mirror matter is not antimatter, it is altogether weirder.
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If it turns out that antimatter gravitates in any way different from matter, a whole lot of theory is going to have to be revised.
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I am among those who routinely phrase the baryon asymmetry question as "Why is there more matter than antimatter?
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The asymmetry between the amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe remains unexplained.
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Then he turned his attention to the darkened warp core, and the matter-antimatter intermix chamber.
Star Trek The Next Generation®
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Much like matter and antimatter the two objects would be almost instantly converted to pure energy, generating a massive explosion.
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There is both matter (such as electrons) and oppositely charged antimatter (such as positrons).
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What is CP violation and how does it explain the fact that matter outnumbers antimatter in the universe?
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But the device can also accelerate antiprotons, the antimatter equivalents of protons with the same mass but negative electric charge.
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Antimatter and matter annihilate each other on contact, so keeping antimatter around requires portable matterless containers, such as magnetic fields shaped into magnetic bottles.
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But the device can also accelerate antiprotons, the antimatter equivalents of protons with the same mass but negative electric charge.
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While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, just tens of milligrams of antimatter will do (a milligram is about one-thousandth the weight of a piece of the original M&M candy).
April 2006
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Why is the universe made of matter and not equal parts of matter and antimatter?
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(If you are willing to postulate a matter-antimatter explosive, aka a positronium bomb, then P can increase by the maximal amount from 0 to e/3.)
Dark Matter: Still Existing
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What everyone actually needs here is a more efficient mobile power source, whether it be cold fusion, lithium air or a matter / antimatter reactor.
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The discovery that antimatter produces antigravity with similarly 'repulsive' properties could help solve this puzzle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only that, but an antimatter meteor from the Lucifer system struck Earth, wiped out the dinosaurs, allowed mammals to find their niche, and produced humans -- in other words, Lucifer brought about original sin.
Archive 2007-02-01
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A positron is the antimatter equivalent of an electron, and perhaps the easiest anti-particle to manufacture and store.
Wired Top Stories
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Antimatter also exists and so there is an antiproton, an antineutron and an antielectron often called the positron.
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Antimatter is matter composed of antiparticles, such as positrons, antineutrons and antiprotons.
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Antimatter, it turns out, is real, nonfiction stuff, but too rare to be used directly as rocket fuel.
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Soon, we produced antiprotons in accelerators and finally, in 1995, we combined a positron with an antiproton to produce an antimatter atom.
