{"id":123959,"date":"2021-06-18T21:27:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/researchers-manipulate-antimatter-with-laser-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-06-18T21:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:27:59","slug":"researchers-manipulate-antimatter-with-laser-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/researchers-manipulate-antimatter-with-laser-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Manipulate Antimatter With Laser for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFkiMWrA2Bc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists from the ALPHA collaboration at CERN reported successfully manipulating <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antimatter\" rel=\"nofollow\">antimatter<\/a> with the use of a laser system \u2014 potentially changing antimatter research and guide future experiments on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Antimatter basically refers to the opposite of matter. Specifically, antimatter has sub-atomic particles whose properties (such as electric charge) are the opposite of normal matter. Most of the challenges surrounding the detection and observation of antimatter come from the fact that it immediately \u201cannihilates\u201d when it comes into contact with normal matter.<\/p>\n<p>The ALPHA collaboration scientists report their findings in the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03289-6\" rel=\"nofollow\">Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms<\/a>,\u201d appearing in the latest journal Nature, March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists from the ALPHA collaboration at CERN reported successfully manipulating antimatter with the use of a laser system \u2014 potentially changing antimatter research and guide future experiments on the field. Antimatter basically refers to the opposite of matter. Specifically, antimatter has sub-atomic particles whose properties (such as electric charge) are the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123959","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=123959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}