Monday, April 18, 2011

Proton and Antiproton DTE

the products of the collision between a proton and its antimatter partner, the antiproton, were different than expected.

"This is huge — an unexpected discovery which could completely transform high-energy physics, and cosmology as well, as the two fields are joined at the hip," astrophysicist Michael S. Turner, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at The University of Chicago, wrote in an email to LiveScience. "But there is one big IF — if it holds up and is not explained by standard model physics."

and of course, the 'more research is needed' statement:

"...a lot more work has to be done before this can be accepted as a fact."

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