Aye captain we have a anti-matter imbalance……..the engines can’t take much more! Remember those words from just about every Star Trek episode?
As you may already know, I try to find something other than politics to post on Sundays….sometimes it has been something sexual or scientific….so without further ado……
For decades we have been trying to make and capture anti-matter particles called positrons….first in Switzerland and then in West Virginia…..both places have massive colliders , I think that they are called “cyclotronic” or something similar…..anyway all that cash spent to build these things and there may have been a simpler answer all along…….
BBC News – Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth http://t.co/Ko4MY6b
Is it possible that we may have spent all the money for nothing?
Good point. Anything is possible, of course.
But, then again, it is necessary to understand the processes involved as fully as possible and eventually, I suppose, to make the process miniature, controllable and therefore useful in a practical sense. Colliders are not just about positrons anyway.
However, to give an analogy you might find nearer to your heart – we have discussed and understood that the political processes we see in our countries is largely self-serving and, basically, mainly attracts assh*les. But if we could understand the detailed PROCESS involved at a molecualar level, make and destroy these assh*les at will and perhaps force them into a tight beam that could be directed wherever we like… well, imagine the benefit!
Wouldn’t that be worth the expense of feeding the assh*les one by one into one of these colliders so we could analyse the particles so created???
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True that…..surely these a/holes can now figure something substantial out…..
you’re joking, of course…?
I see…it depends on the cash, right?
Of course – we need a grant!
It always comes down to those damn grants, huh?
Absolutely.
More seriously, I can remember when anti-matter was no more than the stuff of the wildest science fiction and, although it’s accepted as reality these days, we still understand almost nothing about it – what it really is, how it may be created and so on. Plenty of theories, but little hard evidence until now.
The again, as your post points out, our knowledge of lightning is pretty damned rudimentary too.
We humans don’t know a lot, do we?
Nope…but we think we are so damn advanced…..and yet we are not much past the kite and key…..
Hmm… Yes, we do have a long way to go – hopefully.
but …do not hold your breath…..
Well, I wouldn’t! But you are adult and a free agent… 😆