Physicists create antimatter

[hawk7771us]

http://rss.com.com/2100-1001-958719.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news what"s next beam me up scotty?

[Paul Komski]

"Beam me up Scotty" mightn't be that far off, but probably not till the randomness of Quantum Mechanics is fully understood.

The Bell Experiment (http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/bellexp/) goes some way to proving that it is random.

One wouldn't want to get an enantiomorph (a mirror image) of Scotty now would we; parity "and left/right-handedness" (http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/parity.html) could result in the parting being on the wrong side of his head. :D

[kenz]

Casting my mind back to my school days, I think that the cooks in our school cafeteria invented anti-matter around the 1960's. We called the stews Yuri Gellar, they were capable of bending spoons.

[Whyzman]

Haven't really given this too much thought, but I am sure there is a third form of matter. DoesitMatter, Not really Matter, or AntiMatter, but more like a questioning form of energy. One can definitely feel it's presence.

It's kinda an indecisive form of matter. Kinda like the transition state between water and steam...not really quite water and not yet quite steam. Like you're not definitely Pro something (matter) or, a'gin it (antimatter)...wavering if you will.

So, I would say it definitely is a fluctuating form of matter. Probably show up as a sine wave. Often, a lot of energy is given off during this transition. Right there, between the should or shouldn't. Sweaty pits, clammy hands, furrowed brow...yes, it's there Doesitmatter?

[jabarnutcase]

When I showed this post to my auntimatter, and asked..What do you think? Doesitmatter? She matteroffactly replied: "NO!!!"
The more I questioned her about it the matter she got. Ultimately, she convinced me that doesitmatter doesntmatter either. In fact, in the long run, nothingmatters.
I guess I'll just drop the matter altogether- I've got enough to worry about. :rolleyes:

(Edit) Wow! BTW WYZMN- Happy Birthday!
Now that's a matter of importance! ;) (Unbelievable...Unless I'm seeing things, we're the same age). :eek:

[Whyzman]

Wow is right Jabbar, that we're both 51 is a matter of importance. My wife asked me how it feels to turn 51 earlier today. My matter of fact response was that, "It's an uphill battle from here on out!" Or, "A downhill slide!" Either way it's no laughing matter! :(

Birthday's are a subject matter of great concern...I am reminded of Eutychus' (I think it was he...alas, I'm deeply concerned about my lack of gray matter!) who recounted the story of the individual who lost his marbles...or something like that! :rolleyes: Ah, Here's (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9546&highlight=marbles) the story.

The man's account invited me to introspect a bit regarding what things in life are truly pressing matters and deserve my attention, and what things don't really matter and are therefore a waste of energy.

To which I apply Doesitmatter? This "limbo" energy can be static or dynamic, and can easily turn into positive action (it matters), or it can turn negative (antimatter).

Doesitmatter, therefore, is an important state of matter as much is ultimately determined during this transitional stage. Will what I choose to do matter or in the grand scheme of things not matter at all. Doesitmatter? determines it all! ;)

[hawk7771us]

Being fifty-one isn't old,it's a state of mind.It doesn't matter that your fifty-one or twenty-one,as long as you keep going ahead.Well happy b-day to both of you.When you get home just don't say it doesn't anti matter any more.Be like a rolling stone and get off of my cloud.Or are you in to moody blues in search of the lost?Or as the young rascals say or was it the stones give me give me some lovein.

[jabarnutcase]

Matter: Anything that has weight and occupies space.

With that, I bid you goodnight and present you with this birthday cake made up entirely of matter......( I have to get up early tomorrow and play with what few marbles I have left.) Doesitmatter? Yep! :D

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[Whyzman]

Thanks Jabbar! ;)

Hawk, memories of the good tunes! Times when harmony ruled...Doobie Brothers, CSNY, Eagles.....Thanks for inviting the memories! Wouldn't have wanted to miss that for the world! ;)

[kayofcircles]

Whyman : Belated Happy Birthday!...hope it was awesome.:D

And speaking of awesome...that cake is way COOL.. jabarnutcase . Thanks for sharing it. :)

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Being fifty-one isn't old (http://www.clinton.net/~sammy/64.htm)
...happy b-day to both of you --- Beatles (http://www.yimpan.com/Songsite/Lyric/index.asp?sid=7073)
...say it doesn't anti matter any more --- Buddy Holly (http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?sid=%C0~%87%89%26%F0%5C%D0)
...like a rolling stone --- Dylan (http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling.html)
...get off of my cloud --- Stones (http://www.keno.org/Getoffmycloud.html)
...in search of the lost --- Chord (http://www.kaibab.org/moodies/mxsearch.htm)
...give me give me some lovein. --- Spencer Davis Group (http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1967/331967.html)

Yes. 'Harmonious' harmonies when the music flowed and the melodies were smooth, not like today's on edge, head banging, give you a coronary, in a mad rush frantic music. Ahh, but there's still some good stuff if you look hard enough...:)

Happy belated to the two of you (OLD FARTS), I'm nippin' at your heels at 47

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/images/dog.gif (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/14_Dog_Bite_Injuries.htm)

[Whyzman]

Thanks Kay & FTT! ;)

About a month ago while traveling up to do some Canadian walleye fishing (yum yum...ate 'em right there on the shore!) I happened to overhear an interview which included Neil Young.

When asked his thoughts about Rap Music I took note and his words are indelibly etched, "A bad sermon with a beat!" :D

What's really encouraging is the interest both my teenage son and daughter have in the smooth melodies of the songs I grew up with. When one of the local radio stations here in Minneapolis decided to drop the 50's and focus only on the 60s thru 80s my son was crushed! There's hope for our future.....:cool:

[hawk7771us]

Fruss Tray Ted thanks for the help,was never good at putting song names and the groups together.It must be growing up in nyc in the sixties and hanging out in Greenwich village,listening to bob Dylan at the bitter end.Yelp thirdty-five years ago,seems like only yesterday.Also back then the summers seem so much longer than they do today.June comes and the next thing you know it's fall.Summertime when the livening is easy.

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Whyzman,

Trade you a few perch fillets for a sampling of those walleyes..... please? :( Fresh today!.. NO?!? How 'bout a frozen Brookie over the head (KONK U)?!?

Hawk,

Remmember the sixties? Then you just weren't LIVING in the sixties! :D If you think I remmembered all those artists, you got another thought comin'! A search engine is great! They allow you to find almost anything as long as you have a line, artist, title, subject or other solid clue as to your search. I already kn0w where the line Summertime and the livin is easy (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Summertime+and+the+livin+is+easy&btnG=Google+Search&meta=) comes from. A gravelly voiced Jack Daniels loving (so sad that JD didn't love her,,,) blues singer and as with many of the Greats, wasn't recognized until her passing or well afterwards. Click THE PIC!! http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp200/p239/p239663h3u3.jpg (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B4639) She was born three days and twelve years before me but met her demise three years before I even graduated high school... (To some, it's Marilynn Monroe... Hmmm, Madonna? Yeah, OK...The Dew...)

You know back to the original post's intent, if fizzy, ffizzers, phisisiccorcists (whatever!) really DO get the hang of this (if real, yeah right!) levitation and flying saucers just MIGHT BE real... :rolleyes:

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