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Physicists test if they can load antimatter on a truck
Physicists in Europe have reported that it’s possible to transport charged particles on a truck for four hours without disturbing them in any way. This seemingly run-of-the-mill announcement, reported in Nature on May 14, actually contains within its details the … Continue reading
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Tagged antimatter, Antimatter Factory, BASE-STEP Penning trap, CERN, CP violation, CPT symmetry, Large Hadron Collider, liquid helium, Penning trap, quantum field theory
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The strong CP problem: We’re just lost
Unsolved problems in particle physics are just mind-boggling. They usually concern nature at either the smallest or the largest scales, and the smaller the particle whose properties you’re trying to decipher, the closer you are to nature’s most fundamental principles, … Continue reading
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Tagged CP violation, particle physics, strong CP problem, weak interaction
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