It's finally been contained! We all know that CERN has been working super hard with their LHC recently in order to discover many things... one of which was trying to create the moment of "creation'' in a lab setting, hoping to discover the secrets of anti-matter: one of the great, infuriating mysteries of current science. What is it? Are it's properties different than the matter we know of? Do different laws of physics apply to it? Can it tell us about the origin of the universe? Might it shed light on M Theory, or ideas of parallel universes? Multiverses?
Who knows, for the moment. The good news, then?
Scientists at CERN have successfully created and captured 38 stable atoms of antihydrogen which persisted for 1/5 of a second each. That may not sound like a lot, but in the world of particle mechanics and quantum physics... that is an extremely successful length of time!
Congrats CERN! I feel like most of you folks working there would like to scream at the rest of the world "See?! No black hole. We told you."
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