MoonDragon Warrior
Number of posts : 57 Age : 51 Location : Kochi, India Registration date : 2007-11-23
| Subject: SPACE.com
Source of Mysterious Antimatter Found Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:55 am | |
| Antimatter, which annihilates matter upon contact, seems to be rare in the universe. Still, for decades, scientists had clues that a vast cloud of antimatter lurked in space, but they did not know where it came from. The mysterious source of this antimatter has now been discovered — stars getting ripped apart by neutron stars and black holes. While antimatter propulsion systems are so far the stuff of science fiction, antimatter is very real. What it is All elementary particles, such as protons and electrons, have antimatter counterparts with the same mass but the opposite charge. For instance, the antimatter opposite of an electron, known as a positron, is positively charged. Read Complete Source Article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080111/sc_space/sourceofmysteriousantimatterfound | |
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Night Star Admin
Number of posts : 295 Registration date : 2007-11-20
| Subject: Re: SPACE.comSource of Mysterious Antimatter Found Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:15 pm | |
| Fascinating stuff there Moonie! | |
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Blue Water Admin
Number of posts : 605 Age : 44 Location : Canada Registration date : 2007-11-19
| Subject: Re: SPACE.comSource of Mysterious Antimatter Found Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:58 pm | |
| Very intruiging subject, read about it all ready. | |
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