SCIENCE!
While it may not matter to you and me, it matters a great deal to scientists. Or should I say, it antimatters to scientists. A team of physicists at CERN’s headquarters in Switzerland have managed to make a huge breakthrough in the field of antimatter research. Until now, antimatter has been created, but there has been no way to really study it because it reacts explosively with matter. That is no longer the case as a team of 42 scientists have managed to successfully trap antimatter for future research.
Antimatter is necessary to answer “one of the really big fundamental questions,” according to researcher Michael Hayden of Simon Fraser University, who is one of the 42 scientists involved in CERN’s antimatter research. Antimatter is believed to play a part in the Big Bang, and since CERN is all about studying the Big Bang, the so-called “magnetic bottle” the CERN team has used to capture antimatter (and prevent its explosion) may prove to be the ground-breaking discovery that allows physicists to test the fundamental theories behind how mankind views the creation of the universe.
The hard part, trapping the antimatter, is over. Now the really hard part can begin!
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