Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter 150
steve writes "A team of over 700 physicists at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator have observed the B-sub-s meson oscillating between matter and antimatter states at 3 trillion times a second. From the Fermilab press release: 'Immediately after the Big Bang some 13 billion years ago, equal amounts of matter and antimatter formed. Much of it quickly acted to annihilate the other, but for little-understood reasons, a bit more matter than antimatter survived, providing the universe with the planets, stars and galaxies visible today.' The Standard Model predicted the oscillation, and Fermilab has been working for 19 years to confirm it. The announcement is good press for Fermilab, which is pushing Congress to build a new 18-mile-long International Linear Collider."
Good thing this wasn't discovered in 2004 (Score:5, Funny)
Only a bit (Score:5, Funny)
GiggityGiggityGiggityGiggityGiggity (Score:4, Funny)
I oscillate (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So logically this means that... (Score:5, Funny)
Antimatter Affecting Main Page (Score:5, Funny)
Science: Mesons Flip Between Matter and Antimatter 7 of 6 comments
Someone must have snuck in an antimatter posting or something.
Re:Only a bit (Score:3, Funny)
Compared to the multiverse, it's just a trifle.
New terminology (Score:4, Funny)
Since these Mesons flip between matter and anti-matter regularly, I propose calling them...
Freemesons.
Re:Destined to become politicians (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Enough with the big colliders already! (Score:4, Funny)