Capture of antimatter opens window on Big Bang
Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 12:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Swiss scientists using magnets have managed to hole rare antihydrogen atoms in place for nearly 17 minutes, making it possible to take scientific measurements that could explain how the universe developed.Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have trapped atoms of the elusive antimatter form of hydrogen for nearly 17 minutes, a major step forward in understanding what happened to this mysterious, elusive form of matter when the universe was created in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago.