{"id":215426,"date":"2025-06-05T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-physicists-used-antimatter-supercomputers-and-giant-magnets-to-solve-a-20-year-old-mystery"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:22:17","slug":"how-physicists-used-antimatter-supercomputers-and-giant-magnets-to-solve-a-20-year-old-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-physicists-used-antimatter-supercomputers-and-giant-magnets-to-solve-a-20-year-old-mystery","title":{"rendered":"How physicists used antimatter, supercomputers and giant magnets to solve a 20-year-old mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-physicists-used-antimatter-supercomputers-and-giant-magnets-to-solve-a-20-year-old-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big unanswered questions.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a problem. How do you search for undiscovered forces or particles when you don\u2019t know what they look like?<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a>. We see signs of this mysterious cosmic phenomenon throughout the universe, but what could it possibly be made of? Whatever it is, we\u2019re going to need new physics to understand what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our understanding of the universe and resolve big unanswered questions. But there\u2019s a problem. How do you search for undiscovered forces or particles when you don\u2019t know what they look like? Take dark matter. We see signs of this mysterious cosmic phenomenon throughout the universe, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215426","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}