{"id":148770,"date":"2022-10-24T00:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-antimatter-factory-inside-the-project-that-could-power-fusion-and-annihilation-lasers"},"modified":"2022-10-24T00:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T05:22:17","slug":"the-antimatter-factory-inside-the-project-that-could-power-fusion-and-annihilation-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-antimatter-factory-inside-the-project-that-could-power-fusion-and-annihilation-lasers","title":{"rendered":"The antimatter factory: inside the project that could power fusion and annihilation lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-antimatter-factory-inside-the-project-that-could-power-fusion-and-annihilation-lasers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2013 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Physicists have been chasing antimatter technology for more than 80 years now \u2014 driven by the promise of oppositely oriented particles that explode in a burst of energy whenever they make contact with their more common counterpart. If we could tame antimatter, those explosions could be used to power a new generation of technology, from molecular scanners to rocket engines to the so-called \u201cannihilation laser,\u201d a tightly concentrated energy beam fueled by annihilating positrons. But while scientists have seen recent breakthroughs in creating the particles, they still have trouble capturing and containing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2013 face_with_colon_three Physicists have been chasing antimatter technology for more than 80 years now \u2014 driven by the promise of oppositely oriented particles that explode in a burst of energy whenever they make contact with their more common counterpart. If we could tame antimatter, those explosions could be used to power a new generation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148770","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=148770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}