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Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

45 points mooreds 2 days ago 15 comments

snailshare 2 days ago | parent

Does this hurt the positron?

brenkc 1 hour ago | parent

Call PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Antimatter)

sirlancer 8 minutes ago | parent

Physicists for the Ethical Treatment of Atoms

arj 1 hour ago | parent

Poor thing, all alone

Razengan 43 minutes ago | parent

It could have been an entire universe, like ours, if some theories/cosmologies are correct :)

jimnotgym 1 hour ago | parent

I hope they took precautions against the Camerlengo stealing it

ButlerianJihad 11 minutes ago | parent

Positrons are just as Catholic as electrons: they both have the same mass!

dguest 1 hour ago | parent

Direct link to article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08147

bozdemir 57 minutes ago | parent

That's matter cruelty. We need more ethical ways to study those poor things. Does anyone know what happened after the experiment ? Did they finally let it go?

consensus1 27 minutes ago | parent

It's worse than that. They annihilated it completely.

mixtureoftakes 10 minutes ago | parent

Drawing the line at matter welfare when the world still has this much human suffering will never stop being wild to me

pelagicAustral 5 minutes ago | parent

Definitely a matter of perspective.

gcascio 16 minutes ago | parent

Matter rights matter.

Scarblac 13 minutes ago | parent

But antimatter rights antimatter? Or do they become lefts.

pizzafeelsright 2 minutes ago | parent

of course the cyclotron going clockwise.