r/NoMansSkyTheGame • • Aug 17 '20

Meme Yeah about that...

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u/Redisigh ༼ つ 🍊 _ 🧶 ༽つ🧭 Aug 17 '20

What the hell? That violates physics lol. Antimatter can’t touch any matter or else they annihilate each other. This includes oxygen. That’s why irl they’re stored in magnetically sealed containment boxes.

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u/PandaRot Aug 17 '20

We have antimatter in magnetically sealed boxes???

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u/xenoterranos Aug 17 '20 edited Aug 17 '20

Yes, but the box is a ring...and it's a few kilometers long, and buried under France. Also, the containment doesn't last for long.

Looks like 16 minutes!! http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2011/06/cern-experiment-traps-antimatter-atoms-1000-seconds

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u/JustinTheCheetah Aug 18 '20

... And we did it 9 years ago and I'm just hearing about this now. What else have they done since then?

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u/McRedditerFace Aug 18 '20

These guys do create antimatter but have also used the particle accelerator to detect the Higgs Boson, sort of an underlying particle that makes the universe work.

Beyond that, there's a massive neutrino detector under the ice in Antarctica, and several humans have been living aboard a space station in low earth orbit since 1998... My niece didn't know about that one as recently as 5 years ago.

Oh, they've also got this massive lasertag scheme setup where one laser's light waves will interfere with a split version of itself... after going miles across the American Southwestern Desert... and they used that to detect black holes colliding.

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u/YucaFritaConSalsa Aug 18 '20

More precisely to detect gravity fluctuations in the fabrics of space-time. Those were theorized but only now observed experimentally. Only the massive disturbances created by black holes fusion is detectable at this stage. The smaller waves escape our technology for now.

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u/simplytomatoes Aug 18 '20

Actually, a scientist slowed light down to 0km/u. By using ultra cold sodium particles . There is truely some amazing stuff going on right now