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Comment Re:They Didn't Find "Something From Nothing (Score 3, Informative) 56

No. The collision concentrates the amount of (kinetic) energy into a small area. The energy density is high enough that a large amount of quarks emerge from the vacuum. When a proton is in an accelerated state, the energy within the proton radius is very high. This enables us to see the strange-quark/antiquarks popping in and out of existence as collision debris. The thing you can do with strange quarks is use them to make hyperons. Without strange quarks, you'd be trying to make carrot cake with flour but no carrot. The high energy density brings a large number of quarks into existence and that enables hyperons to form. These hyperons are formed by grabbing a few quarks in the vicinity. By checking for hyperons that are spin-aligned (entangled), they can tell it was directly formed by quarks that emerged from the vacuum and got captured. It's not new that we have particles appear from the vacuum, normally we can't distinguish the hyperons that formed directly from vacuum versus ones that formed from quarks that have already interacted via gluons in the vicinity. This can provide some info about the vacuum field itself.

Comment Alaska & many oil-rich countries already have (Score 1) 118

Even Iran has it. Well had it. Pretty sure it's gotten zeroed as of the past few weeks. It was not a large amount (you'd have to look up the amount, I think it is about $10 a month). Anyway the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Ariabia, Kuwait etc. have it. It's just a matter of how much they provide. The UAE provides enough to live on without a job (about $2,900 a month for an individual citizen). I think Saudi Arabia does too.

Comment Re:In No Way Worth the Cost (Score 1) 41

It will cure cancer. In combination with robotics it will make personalized cancer treatments based each person's tumor genome. Basically once you have a few biopsies of a person's cancer, you can determine what proteins, DNA, and RNA are aberrant and design a treatment against that.

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