SCIENTISTS USE LASER TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF ANTIMATTER

Scientists, using light on the atoms of antimatter, have been able to detect if it behaves differently to normal atoms. This is the first time physicists were able to control the antimatter to measure and compare their behavior. This is the result of two decades of work and opens up new ways of studying antimatter.

The study showed that the antihydrogen atom responded the same way a hydrogen atom under light. Antimatter is identical to matter, except that everything within its atoms is the opposite way round, with negative charge being positive and left becoming right.

The group used a one-of-a-kind machine to trap antihydrogen with magnetic fields. Antimatter is extremely hard to study as it can’t coexist with matter. The next step for the team will be refining their measurements.

This is a great step for the science because discoveries like this will help us to discover things about our planet and our environment that we dind’t know before. 

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Link of the news: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/physicists-learn-how-to-measure-antimatter-using-laser-a7490806.html