{"id":32805,"date":"2016-12-19T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/scientists-blast-antimatter-atoms-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:22","slug":"scientists-blast-antimatter-atoms-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/scientists-blast-antimatter-atoms-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With A Laser For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-blast-antimatter-atoms-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a technological tour de force, scientists have developed a new way to probe antimatter.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers were able to zap antimatter atoms with a laser, then precisely measure the light let off by these strange anti-atoms. By comparing the light from anti-atoms with the light from regular atoms, they hope to answer one of the big mysteries of our universe: Why, in the early universe, did antimatter lose out to regular old matter?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis represents a historic point in the decades-long efforts to create antimatter and compare its properties to those of matter,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.indiana.edu\/~kostelec\/\">Alan Kostelecky<\/a>, a theoretical physicist at Indiana University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/12\/19\/506134622\/scientists-blast-antimatter-atoms-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time?linkId=32556831\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/12\/19\/506134622\/...d=32556831<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a technological tour de force, scientists have developed a new way to probe antimatter. For the first time, researchers were able to zap antimatter atoms with a laser, then precisely measure the light let off by these strange anti-atoms. By comparing the light from anti-atoms with the light from regular atoms, they hope to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59426,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805\/revisions\/59426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}