I don't have bugs, I have race conditions!
I don't get it. Perhaps If you used a car analogy...
It shall henceforth be known as the pleaseExtendOurFunding-ion.
No it's far too late for something that petty, that day has already passed. The Tevatron collider run will not be extended:
"Unfortunately, the current budgetary climate is very challenging and additional funding has not been identified. Therefore, based in part of the P5 recommendation, operation of the Tevatron will end in FY 2011, as originally scheduled." - W. F. Brinkman; Directior, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Fiscal year 2011 ends September 30, 2011. There is not yet a decommissioning plan.
Does it work on the mac app store?
Yes. Any iTunes gift certificate is shared between all of the stores, iBooks, iTunes and Mac App store. I redeemed a gift certificate on my iPad and the balance showed up automatically on the Mac App store on my computer. Of course, they are both signed into the same Apple ID.
"$80MM"
Is dollars millimeters a new unit?
MM obviously stands for MegaMillion, and with the $ the number is clearly in hexadecimal, so the value represented is 120 MegaMillions. With the current value of the MegaMillion jackpot in excess of 242 Million USD, NYC was therefore ripped off for over 29 Trillion USD.
Clearly.
I think the temporary capture of antiprotons and antielectrons has been achieved before
You are correct. For example the Fermilab Antiproton Source, which creates antiprotons and stores them, has been in operation since 1985 [1], while the Fermilab Recycler has held onto a continuous stash of antiprotons for over a month [2]. And these are by no means the very first machines to capture and store antimatter, I'd have to dig though the history a bit more to find an earlier example.
Production of Anti-hydrogen (antiproton orbited by a positron) seems to have been achieved in 1995 at CERN, with Fermilab confirming production in 1997 [3]. But those atoms were destroyed immediately after being created, this is the first time I've heard of anyone successfully storing anti-hydrogen for any long period of time. So yes, the headline is misleading, we've been capturing antimatter for quite some time, it's the fact that you are capturing the neutrally charged anti-hydrogen (antiproton -1, positron +1, total = 0) that's the real news.
The reason we don't have a lot of production is no one has put together a system dedicated to making antimatter.
But we do, the Fermilab Antiproton Source. By my calculations, it currently has about an order of magnitude higher production rate than the parent's prediction (which originally comes from an un-sourced section of the wikipedia article on antimatter).
Using the current process it would take 2 billion years to produce 1 gram of anti-hydrogen
We are much better at making anti-protons. Fermilab's Antiproton source can regularly do 25*10^10 antiprotons an hour, with rates topping out at 28*10^10 per hour (sustained).
So you could probably manage one gram in 'only' 250 million years with what we have built today. However, the best antiproton storage machine has only held 540*10^10 antiprotons at the same time, so there'd need to be an improvement in storage.
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