Physicists create antimatter

[SlimJim]

It's very interesting that larger amounts of anti-H have been created.
 But the actrual creation of such particles is not new at all (as  is also hinted in the article), Positron - electron pairs are hinted in many reactions. And still we are a long way from the science- fiction use of such particles - they cannot be stored and live generally a very short period of time. For the forseeable future anti-matter is going to remain a mere mathematical and physical curiosity, only interesting to the scientific community.
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

From what I heard, the experiment could not be replicated by other researchers - often a good sign of a hoax.

 
'Cold fusion' revisited? ;-)
 
Yet the process described in the article is not that new and/or revolutioneary. The problem is, as always, to interpret what you see...
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

I doubt cold fusion was an elaborate hoax on their part. The two scientists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, were probably 100% certain of their findings back in '89. But they made the mistake of being too enthusiastic. They didn't go through the proper scientific channels (with painstaking independent controls before publication) but went directly to media. Thus the whole thing blew up in their faces as a huge scandal.
 On the other hand, it wasn't very clever to deny other researchers access to their labs afterwards. Sorts of implies guilt in a way doesn't it?
 
But I must say that I feel sorry for them as it turned out. Chances are (albeit it seems extremely improbable if you know the physics involved) that they were onto something but never got a chance to develop it further because of being over-enthusiastic.
 
Then again, that particular experiment was very simple- and was later extensvely tried by others-  so one should think that someone should have stumbled onto their solution by now...
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

Erm, so are we saying that the AmigaOne is made of anti-matter, and they are having problems creating enough to be able to put it on general release?

 
Yes that is what we are saying. Good thing you spotted that one.
:-D
 
(It would be something wouldn't it?)
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SlimJim

[SlimJim]

@ redlumloa
 
Yep, you're out of the loop   [---- or does one say 'hoop'?].
 
And we (all of us) have secretely decided we won't talk to you until you have read up on atomic/nuclear physics and quantum-field theory. So there. Now you know.
:-D
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SlimJim