Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months

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Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months

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Star Trek Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 9 days ago

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron — the antimatter counterpart of an electron — into an exquisitely controlled quantum state.

Seems like it’s about time for someone to name their kid Zefram!

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Another antimatter? Doesn’t that do very little? I thought it was a problem until it mattered.

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