{"id":155233,"date":"2023-01-12T04:24:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-used-antimatter-in-one-of-the-most-famous-physics-experiments"},"modified":"2023-01-12T04:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:24:50","slug":"for-the-first-time-physicists-have-used-antimatter-in-one-of-the-most-famous-physics-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-used-antimatter-in-one-of-the-most-famous-physics-experiments","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Physicists Have Used Antimatter in One of The Most Famous Physics Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-used-antimatter-in-one-of-the-most-famous-physics-experiments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have performed an iconic physics experiment with a positron \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antimatter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">antimatter<\/a> counterpart of an electron, one of the fundamental particles.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did they get some truly interesting results, but this achievement could become the first step towards potentially revolutionary discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment \u2014 an antimatter version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/first-time-double-slit-experiment-using-antimatter-positrons\/this-classic-physics-experiment-could-finally-reveal-the-long-awaited-theory-of-everything\">famous double-slit setup<\/a> \u2014 was carried out by researchers from Switzerland and Italy in order to lay the groundwork for a novel line of super-sensitive experiments that might help solve a mystery concerning the Universe\u2019s two domains of matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have performed an iconic physics experiment with a positron \u2014 the antimatter counterpart of an electron, one of the fundamental particles. Not only did they get some truly interesting results, but this achievement could become the first step towards potentially revolutionary discoveries. The experiment \u2014 an antimatter version of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155233","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}