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Artificial atoms made of annihilating particles can pair up.
Two years after reporting the first tantalizing hints that matter might be able to bind with antimatter, researchers in California have nailed convincing evidence for the pairing.
Posted by Nicola Jones on September 12, 2007
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Why is there so much more matter than antimatter in the Universe?
Chiral anomalies: matter versus antimatter, left-handed Weak interaction, biological homochirality. A vacuum field must drive inflation post-Big Bang.
Affine and teleparallel gravitation theories allow a mass sector chiral vacuum background. Everything would be sourced! Benzil, PhCOCOPh mp = 95 C, is an achiral molecule (sock) crystallizing in enantiomorphic space groups P3(1)21 and P3(2)21 (shoes). Chemically identical opposite parity single crystals fit upon a vacuum left foot with different energies. Melting to achiral sock common state delivers detectably different enthalpies of fusion if the vacuum is chiral.
Somebody should look.
Posted by: Uncle Al | September 13, 2007 09:53 PM
I have also some research on THE MATTER & its existance.....thats i did for my engineering website on the basis of my engineering mate research on THE MATTER & ITS EXISTENCE ......Actually
Thermonuclear fusion in the middle of stars produces neutrinos which escape from it and which, for a few years could have been detected. The problem is that according to theoretical calculations, the detected neutrinos should be three times more. Is it necessary to reconsider the theory of the nuclear fusion which largely proved reliable? A new theory based on the flow of neutrinos actually detected would not stick at all to reality. Or then is there an unperceived last fault on the level of the detectors? It is impossible to collect a neutrino directly, but when one of them interacts, i.e. enters in collision with an atom, this one transforms itself into a different atom which can be located. There are several types of detectors, and all, even the most sophisticated, do nothing but confirm the deficit in neutrinos.
The most possible assumption currently is that the neutrino which is of electronic type can change in a random way during the way of the Sun to the Earth into neutrino muon or tauïque which is currently two undetectable types. But for that it is necessary that the neutrino has a mass, because a neutrino without mass could travel only at the speed of the light, which from the point of view of the neutrino is equivalent at an infinite speed, this one would thus travel during a null time what would prevent it from changing. The question is thus to know if the neutrino has a mass or not.
Here the most intersting is THE QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMIQUE which is the theory of studies the action of the strong nuclear force on the quarks. It is this force which maintains together the protons and the neutrons, components of the atomic nuclei. The electromagnetic field is positive or negative, the strong nuclear force is a field with three poles, this is why by analogy with the three complementary colors, it was called load “of color”. The bond between the quarks is ensured by gluons, particles of energy which allow exchanges of colors between the quarks. Two of the same quarks color cannot bind, with the result that they always join by three: a “blue”, a “red”, a “yellow”, which is the three colors complémentaires*. The three loads of the quarks are cancelled, three quarks thus form a proton or a “white” neutron. This is why one does not find any more the force nuclear strong at the higher levels of the organization of the matter. The more one moves away a magnet, the less it is powerful. On the contrary, the characteristic of the strong nuclear force is that it increases with the distance, as if the quarks were dependent whole by a rubber band, one says that the quarks are confined. - Although the phenomenon is completely different, it is not without pointing out the influence of total on the room, which increases with the distance. Curious bringing together between the infinitely small one and the infinitely large one, as if the universe behaved like a turned over particle (turned over in the interior/external direction) -. When one tries to tear off a quark of a proton, energy required is so large that it is higher than the mass of the quark, and is sufficient to create a pair of quark anti-quark between the torn off quark and the mutilated proton. The new quark replaces the old one which is destroyed with the anti-quark, all this is done in 10-23 second (i.e. a billionth of second divided per a hundred and thousand billion). Result: nothing is changed, the proton is always whole, this is why the quarks are known as inseparable...
Posted by: engineering | September 14, 2007 09:33 PM