{"id":120518,"date":"2021-03-13T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-confirm-an-incredibly-powerful-antimatter-particle-crashed-into-antarctica"},"modified":"2021-03-13T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T16:22:17","slug":"scientists-confirm-an-incredibly-powerful-antimatter-particle-crashed-into-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-confirm-an-incredibly-powerful-antimatter-particle-crashed-into-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Confirm an Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particle Crashed Into Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-confirm-an-incredibly-powerful-antimatter-particle-crashed-into-antarctica2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s nothing compared to how long scientists have been waiting to spot the bizarre phenomenon. <em>Live Science<\/em> notes that Stephen Glashow first came up with the notion of the subatomic cascade back in 1960 and that it\u2019s been a matter of pure theory that whole time.<\/p>\n<p>The actual cascade of Glashow resonance involves an antineutrino \u2014 or even a regular neutrino \u2014 crashing into an electron with so much energy that it produces a comparatively-large particle called a W boson.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this requires the extremely-tiny antineutrino to carry 6.3 petaelectronvolts, or the amount of energy of 6.3 quadrillion electrons accelerated by a single volt. That\u2019s the same, <em>Live Science <\/em>calculated, as 6300 mosquitos traveling at one mile per hour \u2014 or one mosquito traveling 8.2 times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that\u2019s nothing compared to how long scientists have been waiting to spot the bizarre phenomenon. Live Science notes that Stephen Glashow first came up with the notion of the subatomic cascade back in 1960 and that it\u2019s been a matter of pure theory that whole time. The actual cascade of Glashow resonance involves an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}