Not gonna be impressed until they teach it to fetch.
So it’s potty trained and can do tricks now?
someone has to draw that particle on a leash, all tied up, gagged, cumming hard
I gotchu, fam
with puppy ears
I can, but I don’t want to do that
$200 says you do (nr)
I wonder what they called it,since they tamed it.
I’m thinking Anton if it’s a boy particle, Antonia if it’s a girl, and Matty if it’s nonbinary.
Perhaps Antti (Niemi) if it’s Finnish 🤷🏻
How do you determine it’s gender? The spin? Electrical charge? Quark makeup?
How do you determine it’s gender?
VERY carefully.
Gender reveal particle.
Scientists in 2026: “let’s see how long we can hold onto this extremely angry piece of energy that is absolutely incompatible with our known existence and stability by every metric up until now. It’s probably gonna work, it might not go boom.”
how did this get past the ethics committee
Won’t somebody please think of the
childrenantimatter?!antichildren*
Antimatter matters!
Poor particle did nothing bad
This is anti-electron astroturfing right here, verging on hate speech.
Everyone calm down. There’s enough love in the world for all the different types of particles.
Oh, and I suppose you want the electrons and positrons to just hug it out?!
🤣
No Bad Particles: Physics the Woodhouse Way.
It doesn’t matter
For someone knowing jack about this matter^huehue
How big would be the “explosion” if it would touch matter?
a single particle almost nothing. if it was a gram though it would be bad.
A TOS Star Trek novel opens up with a terrorist who detonates a gram of antimatter in a box he’s holding (just turns off the power holding it). The city-sized colony was gone.
An electron meeting a positron will apparently release 1.022 MeV of energy. I’m no physicist but my understanding is that this isn’t huge. For comparison, fission of a uranium-235 nucleus releases about 200 MeV.
ELI5
A zap like a fly in an electrical flytrap or more like a small firecracker?
you wouldn’t feel it
you’d need several dozen, maybe a hundred uranium nuclei doing fission at once to knock over a coarse grain of sand.
There’s a medical test called a PET scan, with PET standing for Positron Emission Tomography. Yes, positron as in antimatter. How it works is the subject is injected with a radioactive substance that decays into antimatter. That antimatter reacts with the normal matter in the subject’s body releasing photons. Those photons are then observed by the scanner which builds up a useful picture from them.
Now, I’m not sure how much antimatter is generated in the subject’s body, but it’s a hell of a lot more than a single positron. And it all annihilates within the subject who doesn’t notice a thing. So a single positron is not going to generate much of a bang.
very smol.
If movies have taught me anything, that particle isn’t tame. It’s just waiting for it’s moment.
I wonder if it likes one scientist over another scientist
Did they ask for consent?
Penning traps have been around for decades.
What does near absolute zero mean for a single quantum particle?
Slow particle. Better chance of observing it.
How did they know at any given point that it was still there? Wouldn’t they have to interact with it to be sure, causing an explosion and annihilating it? The explosion would be incredibly small with just one particle. Is the lack of explosion their only evidence that they had contained it? I’m stumped as to what it actually means to have one particle like this. How can you even know what temperature it is without interacting with it? And how do you interact with it without destroying it?
Yes, you’d detect gamma rays from the annihilation.
Yeah I’m sure the annihilation would be detectable. I’m asking if there’s any way short of that to detect the antimatter particle.
Maybe get it to emit synchrotron radiation? Seems complex.
