Physicists build bigger 'bottles' of antimatter to unlock nature's secrets
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 15:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Once regarded as the stuff of science fiction, antimatter -- the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable universe -- is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world. While physicists routinely produce antimatter with radioisotopes and particle colliders, cooling these antiparticles and containing them for any length of time is another story. One scientists is constructing what he hopes will be the world's largest antimatter container.