Brainy Quote of the Day

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Fire up those Nacelles...

GENEVA, Nov. 17, 2010 (Reuters) — Physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on Wednesday they have created and trapped anti-matter, one of the biggest mysteries of modern science.

In an article in the journal Nature, CERN said it had produced anti-hydrogen atoms -- the opposite of a hydrogen atom -- in a vacuum and kept them viable for about a tenth of a second: "Long enough to study them," it said.


Link: CERN makes and traps antimatter, mystery of science

Here's the Trekkie reference: Star Trek Nacelle

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