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They could look in Bush’s skull.

I’m sure the military is on it. But unlike Hiroshima, an anti-matter explosion could wipe out the planet. Isn’t there a mathematical formula out there that explains why the universe isn’t full of ETs – That once a civilization gets to a certain point there is a higher chance of obliterating themselves and a miniscule chance that they’ll grow enough to make it through.

We’re so fncked!

Then their heads would explode.

That’s too bad, I was hoping for an anit-particle recount on all Rethuglicons that were elected by money only, voter lintimidations, threats of violence. I can see it now, a Blackwater assault team on every corner, there won’t even be enough space for even a 7-11 store, but, you can bet the will have team on call at all super Wal-Mart Stores…… keeping the peace. ha ha ha.

i am pretty sure that if you carve open the skulls of bush, cheney, wolfie, rummy, and the rest of the neocons, and lets not forget that fucking skank palin. you will find antimatter in its natural state. it has already been proven that it runs counter to all logic and natural precedent.

Is “anti-matter” “dark matter”? Confined within a “webbing” that is the core of the brane by boundaries formed by “dark energy”? Of course, it is said there is much, much more “dark matter” than matter, or does our current testing methods just appear to make “anti-matter” much, much more “dense” than matter? Can “dark energy” effect our testing equipment in some way to account for this anomoly?

No anti matter and dark matter are very different

‘Dark matter’, which may or may not exist, doesn’t react with light and is used to explain why the universe doesn’t fly apart. Einstein used the ‘cosmological constant’ to explain why the universe doesn’t fall apartbefore dark matter was hypothesized.

Anti-Matter is a littel trickier to explain. It is the opposite of matter where the center is massive and negative and the electron is replaced by a positive charge which is small like an electron.

Dark matter is not detectable without using gravity. Light and electromagnetism doesn’t react with it.

Dark matter also does not emit black body radiation.

Next on the scientific agenda, antimatter bombs.

Now there will be even more US spying in Europe.

Also my first thought.

There is no such thing as science. The holy virgin told me in a dream.

They are late. Anti-matter has already appeared in our Congress!!

Explain this. If there is more matter than anti matter how is it that anti matter is still around?

LOL…good one

I wonder if the annihilation of Glenn Beck with the anti-matter Glenn Beck will leave remnants of a colourless (yet pungent) fluid that is often found in rotting faecal matter…

If all matter were converted to anti-matter, there would no longer be a stability problem.

Get on it CERN; there’s a better chance of achieving this than achieving stability in Afghanistan.

Energy can not be created or destroyed and can only change forms. It may be that matter is returned back to its pure energy state after entering a black hole. That is to say that maybe the missing anti-matter isnt missing its just beyond the event horizon.

When two ‘anti-atoms’ collide in a super-collider, they produce a ‘posi-atom’. You know on account of two negatives produce a positive. Ergo an equation- X = ^X4.7 – thx.4sq…
I don’t know what it might mean.
However, the military will be having some fun with an anti-matter IED. You know, ‘intellectually explosive devise’? Cause IF the U.S. military gets their warmongering mitts on an anti-matter bomb well, oh holy bat shit, our planet will be in some serious trouble then.

I can see this having some interesting implications in the energy sector… Let’s be optimistic! Maybe this will turn into a viable alternative.

It’s not present naturally. It’s generated in a laboratory.

and even if it does exist naturally, consider the space involved. This would be like you leaving Earth today in searching for your twin or mirror image throughout the universe. Remember that and I matter and matter have to be a mirror image

“when energy transforms into matter, it produces a particle and its mirror image — called an anti-particle — which holds the opposite electrical charge.”

it’s easy to make the assumption that those two particles would annihilate each other instantly upon contact. But it’s the contact that is the assumption. We are talking about something so incredibly small that your bedroom would seem like the universe to it

It doesn’t matter.

Have you ever read the theory that dark matter is not present in this universe at all, rather, it is the gravitational force of another universe on our universe?

I can hear the whispers of revolt among christianists everywhere: This is blasphemy!

Ah… “The stars are matter, we’re matter, it doesn’t matter.” — Captain Beefheart.

Yeah I have heard that theory. Personally i don’t care for it very much
because that would imply that we are going to merge with those other
universes, because they would expand to meet each other and become
homogeneous. That scenario doesn’t make much sense to me.

At the same time I am skeptical of dark matter. It has gravity but it can’t
interact with ‘light matter’ like us? Gravity is derivative of mass when
you get to the equation used to judge very large bodies, so no mass no
gravity. However F=MA, so a massive object should be able to make force .
Maybe the dark matter is immobile and has no acceleration? But immobile
relative to what?

I think that further advances in physics will make the concept of dark
matter disappear just like phlogiston, phrenology and junk DNA

I think what you are hearing are symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

To quote Jerry Garcia: I guess it doesn’t matter, anyway………..

Scientists should be aware that space and time may become warped in their vicinity.

(Isn’t this fun?)

I am guessing it takes a lot more energy to generate anti-matter than can be obtained by its subsequent reactions with matter.

Wow! Is this…like…the end of the world, dude? Or do we get to live till 2012?

Too late. It’s already happened in the USA

Isn’t that the illness that affects Christians?

What’s the matter?

Canada has its own program at Whatsamatta U.

“…trapped dozens of hydrogen ‘antimatter’ atoms…”

Did they capture God?
He’s hiding in there somewhere. Keep looking.

Hell, Cap’n Kirk knew about anti-matter way ahead in Star Date 745!
Right DennyCrane?! (-:)

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A rat done bit my sister Nel,
her hands and arms began to swell…..

I am sure the military won’t create antimatter bombs…

I wonder how this might relate to RNA and DNA? RNA is quite fascinating and I never find enough about it.

Now, here’s a thinker! Yes!

If they create an anti-Beck.. he might be the savior of mankind. He would be the pinnacle of integrity and intellect.

Maybe we’d get lucky and an anti-Beck would also become a smoking hot woman.. polar opposite of the current pudgy, sweating, bug-eyed cretin.

Can shills and trolls apply for those ‘volunteer moderator’ positions? With all the money RAW has why are the positions voluntary? They obviously aren’t using their money for JOURNALISM…

Anti-matter bombs would be a trifle unstable, don’t you think?

Wait I don’t remember which day God created antimatter….. Anyone remember that passage? Or is that one of the things the three wise men brought Jesus?

Antimatter is produced by certain types of radioactive decay and can be produced by collisions using particle accelerators. It is produced in fusion reactions that occur in stars and can be produced at high levels in extremely violent events like supernovas. However, it doesn’t last long because of the annihilation reaction. But the point is that matter is the predominant form of, er, matter in the universe.

In case it matters to you…

Actually, what I don’t understand is why annihilation occurs.

Can only opposite particles annihilate (i.e., protons + anti-protons, positrons + electrons)?

How do positrons and protons or antiprotons and electrons interact?

Why didn’t I learn more physics?

Does this matter to anyone?

They only saw it cuz God let them.

Cool!

I believe antimatter to be the work of the Devil. LOL

……But Whitey’s on the moon.

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