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11-17-2010 03:52 PM |
The warp drive just took its first baby steps
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 :winkwink: ), 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 :pimp
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.
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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.
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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:
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"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.
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So they don't understand all this shit, yet their messing with frikken high energy shit that created our universe :error:helpme
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