Oh dear, what can the anti-matter be?
Enough about Bob Greene already! What's really important? Researchers at CERN -- the Swiss physics lab that birthed the World Wide Web a dozen years ago -- have "made 50,000 atoms of anti-hydrogen, the antimatter counterpart of normal hydrogen." Read more here. (Link courtesy David Harris.) This "blob" is apparently enough anti-matter for scientists to test the entire basis of modern physics: "If antihydrogen does not behave as they expect, the model will need to be replaced, and our notions of the structure of the Universe overhauled."
What do we root for? Do we keep our fingers crossed that the standard model holds? Or do we root for the world to be turned upside down?
NYTimes coverage is here.
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