
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ANTIMATTER? Faster than Light, etc.
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2006 @ 13:17:16 UTC Topic: Science
Scientists of the DZero collider detector collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that their data on the properties of a subatomic particle, the B_s meson ("B sub s"), suggest that the particle oscillates between matter and antimatter in one of nature's fastest rapid-fire processes-more than 17 trillion times per second. Their findings may affect the current view of matter-antimatter asymmetry, and might also offer a first glimpse of the contributions of new physics, such as supersymmetry, to particle physics.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news12049.html
PROBING QUESTION: CAN ANYTHING TRAVEL FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT?, March 23 Can anything travel faster than the speed of light? "No," is what Albert Einstein would likely say if he was alive today -- and he would be the man to ask, because scientists have been taking his word for it ever since the early 20th century. Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news12084.html
A TRULY 'SUPER' FLUID, March 23 In the world of quantum mechanics, surprising discoveries are often made. For instance, what happens when you take a fermionic superfluid and convert it into a bosonic superfluid? The answer: a new superfluid that has surprising characteristics that a superfluid isn't expected to have. But it can't be described as anything other than a superfluid. Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news12072.html
GOVERNMENTS MUST HEED WARNINGS ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOW: CHIEF SCIENTIST, March 24 Governments around the world need to act now to tackle global warming and a destructive surge in storms and floods over coming decades, the senior scientist advising the British government said. Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news12118.html
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