{"id":121100,"date":"2021-03-31T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/researchers-achieve-worlds-first-manipulation-of-antimatter"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:22:45","slug":"researchers-achieve-worlds-first-manipulation-of-antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/researchers-achieve-worlds-first-manipulation-of-antimatter","title":{"rendered":"Researchers achieve world\u2019s first manipulation of antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-achieve-worlds-first-manipulation-of-antimatter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>:oooooooo.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world\u2019s first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of antimatter down to near absolute zero. The achievement, detailed in an article published today and featured on the cover of the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, will significantly alter the landscape of antimatter research and advance the next generation of experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Antimatter is the otherworldly counterpart to matter; it exhibits near-identical characteristics and behaviors but has opposite charge. Because they annihilate upon contact with matter, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antimatter+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antimatter atoms<\/a> are exceptionally difficult to create and control in our world and had never before been manipulated with a laser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s results are the culmination of a years-long program of research and engineering, conducted at UBC but supported by partners from across the country,\u201d said Takamasa Momose, the University of British Columbia (UBC) researcher with ALPHA\u2019s Canadian team (ALPHA-Canada) who led the development of the laser. \u201cWith this technique, we can address long-standing mysteries like: \u2018How does antimatter respond to gravity? Can antimatter help us understand symmetries in physics?\u2019. These answers may fundamentally alter our understanding of our Universe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:oooooooo. Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world\u2019s first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of antimatter down to near absolute zero. The achievement, detailed in an article published today and featured on the cover of the journal Nature, will significantly alter the landscape of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121100","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}