Antimatter Light Spectrum Discovered!
Scientists were able to measure the emission lines of antimatter! And we may have some new clues about how dinosaurs lost their teeth on the way to becoming birds. Hosted by: Hank Green ----------...
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You’re probably familiar with the basic parts of an atom: there are positive protons, uncharged neutrons, and much tinier, much lighter negative electrons. But there’s a whole set of subatomic particles out there that are the exact opposites of the ones you’ll find in regular matter. These particles make up antimatter. And in a paper published this week in the journal Nature, an international team of more than 50 researchers announced that they’d detected the spectrum of light coming from the antimatter form of a hydrogen atom, aka antihydrogen. Finally. After decades of trying. It’s a pretty big deal. Antimatter is part of one of the most baffling mysteries in the universe. See, based on what we know about the laws of physics, whenever a...
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You’re probably familiar with the basic parts of an atom: there are positive protons, uncharged neutrons, and much tinier, much lighter negative electrons. But there’s a whole set of subatomic particles out there that are the exact opposites of the ones you’ll find in regular matter. These particles make up antimatter. And in a paper published this week in the journal Nature, an international team of more than 50 researchers announced that they’d detected the spectrum of light coming from the antimatter form of a hydrogen atom, aka antihydrogen. Finally. After decades of trying. It’s a pretty big deal. Antimatter is part of one of the most baffling mysteries in the universe. See, based on what we know about the laws of physics, whenever a...
