It Might Be…It Could Be…It Is!!!

[Mr. McD]

Fermilab's CDF scientists make it official: They have discovered the quick-change behavior of the B-sub-s meson, which switches between matter and antimatter 3 trillion times a second.

The CDF discovery of the oscillation rate, marking the final chapter in a 20-year search, is immediately significant for two major reasons: reinforcing the validity of the Standard Model, which governs physicists' understanding of the fundamental particles and forces; and narrowing down the possible forms of supersymmetry, a theory proposing that each known particle has its own more massive "super" partner particle.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/CDF_meson.html

[Webster Green]

1. I knew it!...

Well....not really.

[Richard D]

2. Cool!

Can I get some for my home chemistry set?

[longship]

9. Now available from Edmund Scientific.

The New High Energy Physics/Chemistry Set!!!

However, it requires 100 square miles of clear ground to set it up and UPS and FedEx cannot ship it. Pick up only, at your expense.

Also, the price is pretty severe... If you have to ask, don't bother. You can't afford it.

[YOY]

3. OK...so now we can...???

make nanotechnology?

use a better powersupply?

Teleport?

Make super-neutrino-chili dogs with meson sauce?

enlighten me as to what this enables...

[Warpy]

4. The more you pick matter apart, the weirder it gets

and it's not surprising they've found a "bit" that oscillates between matter and antimatter. They already found one that goes backwards in time.

More and more, matter is turning out to be energy with different rates of "spin," or weirdness.

Oh, that chair you're sitting on is solid, of course, but your fanny is parked on lines of force between atoms that are made up of subatomic particles which are in turn made up of energies. That's why the "prickles" view of matter as disconnected atoms with huge spaces around them breaks down and you can't pass your hand through your desk.

[Fridays Child]

6. Backwards in time?

I thought time was an illusion.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. and lunchtime doubly so.

[Dead_Parrot]

10. You should sent that in to Reader's Digest...

...They have a page for people like you.

:)

[FiveGoodMen]

11. Yeah, but it's undoubtedly already in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

since it was one of their field researchers who said it.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Cool. Now beam Bush into the nearest black hole.

:-)

[TlalocW]

8. DAMN!

I owe Stephen Hawking 20 bucks!

TlalocW