The warp drive just took its first baby steps

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Made famous by Star Trek, the physics of the warp drive (aka the Alcubierre drive) existed in the realms of Star Trek and theoretical physics.

Theoretical physics, since to drive the warp drive, one needed something called "Exotic Matter" (hence the post on GFY ), which can be captured by the gravitational forces of anti-matter.

Well, that big fuckoff donut at CERN running under the Swiss-French border just captured and held 38 anti-matter atoms

The atoms may have only been held for a fraction of a second, but the pimp is they were held even after their interaction with normal matter.

The team proved that among their 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons, 38 stable atoms of antihydrogen were formed, lasting about two tenths of a second each.

warp factor 10 - engage.

These boffins underground though kinda worry me - they are meddling in shit using a machine to zap sub-atomic particles around a tube at the closest thing to light speed ever seen using trillions of volts and come up with stuff like:

"What we'd like to do is see if there's some difference that we don't understand yet between matter and antimatter," Professor Hangst said.

"That difference may be more fundamental; that may have to do with very high-energy things that happened at the beginning of the universe.

So they don't understand all this shit, yet their messing with frikken high energy shit that created our universe

Story here

[myneid]

I was just reading that, fascinating stuff

[Kiopa_Matt]

38 atoms! Fucken 'eh! Now we're getting somewhere.

Ok, actually, I'll just wait it out another 20 years.

[fatfoo]

I wish a woman slowed down, otherwise she leaves me too fast.

[Phoenix]

oh man....i just got hard

i know what im doing tonight

[MaDalton]

massive breakthrough, let's see where this goes. science like that can at some point solve all our energy problems

[Ravage]

Its ok, their top scientists have confirmed that the chance that a sustainable black hole will form and consume the earth, is quite small.

[PornMD]

So any minute now, the enterprise crew will show up and help ensure that First Contact happens since as we know, it happens when we develop the warp drive, and the Borg are out to prevent it from happening.

[Dead]

I was hoping this was about the Hadron, this technology will snowball as the data is realized. I love this shit

[Sarah_Jayne]

My geek sense is tingling.

[awxm]

Yo dawg i heard you like universes...

[Slutboat]

Don't worry dude - people got scared when first the fire cracker was made too - and I bet the first dude that got a blowjob was afraid his dick was being eaten.

[TidalWave]

I sale cheap antimatter

[NickB.]

Originally Posted by Slutboat

Don't worry dude - people got scared when first the fire cracker was made too - and I bet the first dude that got a blowjob was afraid his dick was being eaten.

[bronco67]

Fuck warp drive. They need to make a holodeck so I can get gangbanged by 50 Shakiras in the comfort of my home.

[cardinalvices]

Common, similar facilities in US already produced antimatter, and it was tested. CERN can produce more particles, thats why they built it.

[BSleazy]

Originally Posted by fatfoo

I wish a woman slowed down, otherwise she leaves me too fast.

ahahaha I actually like that one...

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Originally Posted by cardinalvices

Common, similar facilities in US already produced antimatter, and it was tested. CERN can produce more particles, thats why they built it.

this isn't a US v Europe thing you know, though that said ours is bigger

what they have done at cern is create antimatter atoms, which IS a first. As they are atoms and not particles, they are more stable and don't simply disintegrate when they collide with regular atoms.

[borked]

Originally Posted by Dead

I was hoping this was about the Hadron, this technology will snowball as the data is realized. I love this shit

yup - I love this stuff too. It's so science fiction to me cos it's mind boggling, yet it's not fiction. That place is just awesome and to think, it's not even running at full power yet...