• Ponder black holes at Herrett Center Jul 17, 2009
The Hadron even had an antimatter story line in the newest Tom Hanks film, "Angels and Demons.". Chris Anderson, Centennial Observatory coordinator and production specialist for the Faulkner Planetarium, will discuss these and other topics at his Astronomy Talk starting at 8:30 p.m. July 24. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Gamma ray "mystery" not related to dark matter Jul 17, 2009
The distribution of certain gamma rays in the Milky Way, speculated by some to be evidence of dark matter, can instead be explained by the way antimatter positrons move through the Galaxy ... The distribution of certain gamma rays in the Milky Way, speculated by some to be evidence of dark matter, can instead be explained by the way antimatter positrons move through the Galaxy ... It is well known that our Galaxy is filled with tiny subatomic particles known as positrons, the antimatter... (Astronomy Now Online)
Venus had a wet, volcanic past Jul 17, 2009
The distribution of certain gamma rays in the Milky Way, speculated by some to be evidence of dark matter, can instead be explained by the way antimatter positrons move through the Galaxy. Venus had a wet, volcanic past DR EMILY BALDWINASTRONOMY NOWPosted: JULY 14, 2009. (Astronomy Now Online)
Antimatter Positrons In Milky Way Galaxy Jul 9, 2009
Antimatter Positrons Explain Gamma Ray Mystery In Milky Way Galaxy ... Antimatter Positrons Explain Gamma Ray Mystery In Milky Way Galaxy ... In two separate scientific papers, the most recent of which appears in the July 10 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters, the astrophysicists show that this distribution of gamma rays can be explained by the way antimatter positrons from the radioactive decay of elements, created by massive star explosions in the galaxy, propagate through the... (Science Daily)
Northwest scientists zero in on new energy source -- 'antimatter' May 31, 2009
Northwest scientists zero in on new energy source -- 'antimatter ... PULLMAN, Wash -- Scientists at Washington State University say they re one step closer to capturing antimatter ... Scientists: Antimatter matters a lot. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR)
Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter May 29, 2009
While the perils associated with particle physics, from Earth-gobbling black holes to Vatican-destroying amounts of antimatter, gain news headlines, it's easy to overlook the large economic and societal benefits of particle physics research ... " The new report lays out how particle physics benefits the UK's economy and its society through healthcare and communication spin-offs and how it provides British industry with world-leading technology, while also helping us address global challenges.... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Newsweek: Why the dance movie endures May 23, 2009
Kind of like antimatter, or those submersible bathtub pellets that explode into sponge critters. Sure, it takes practice (cue the aforementioned B-roll of sports bras, blistered feet, undone homework and water lifts). (MSNBC -- News)
Infotainment May 21, 2009
Angels and Demons, the recently released film version of the Dan Brown thriller, focuses on a plot to destroy the Vatican using a small amount antimatter pilfered from the European particle physics laboratory CERN, the worlds largest particle accelerator. Some of the worlds top particle. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Angels & Demons antimatter theory debunked May 21, 2009
Angels & Demons antimatter theory debunked - Science - Health & Science - The Times of India ... Angels & Demons antimatter theory debunked ... CHICAGO: Angels and Demons, the recently released film version of the Dan Brown thriller, focuses on a plot to destroy the Vatican using a small amount antimatter pilfered from the European particle physics laboratory CERN, the worlds largest particle accelerator. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Sci-fi 'Demons' are in the details of antimatter May 21, 2009
Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Thure Lindhart and Ewan McGregor star in "Angels & Demons," which centers on a stolen antimatter cylinder ... By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY An antimatter bomb powers the plot of Angels & Demons, but scientists say that's the only place you'll see such a weapon ... "We're working on understanding the mysteries of the universe here. We're not interested in weapons," says antimatter expert Rolf Landua of CERN, the European physics lab on the Swiss-French border. (USA Today -- Tech)
Review: 'Angels & Demons' Casts Confusing Spell May 18, 2009
Imagine a movie where antimatter is at the core of a fight between the Illuminatis and the Vatican, where Rome while not built in a day could get blown up in minutes, and where the science of symbology turns a professor into a modern-day Sherlock Holmes ... Physicists hover over a canister of antimatter particles that they've created and trapped at the CERN particle physics facility, a real laboratory in Switzerland that gave Brown the idea for his story. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
> read more May 16, 2009
In recent months, scientists with the international balloon experiment and the European satellite reported excesses of high-speed electrons and positrons (their antimatter counterparts) coming from deep space (Sky cope, April issue cover story). Comparing the recent Fermi data with the PAMELA results, Elliott Bloom (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) of the Fermi science team says, If you take both of these together, the implication is that there seems to be a relatively close-by source... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Review: 'Angels & Demons' has its blessings May 16, 2009
With the clock ticking and a missing canister of antimatter. to further concentrate wavering minds, Vatican emissaries show up at Professor Robert Langdon's door. (CNN -- Showbiz)
• Review: Angels & Demons May 15, 2009
In the company of Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), who works for the CERN particle physics lab that produced the canister of antimatter that threatens to blow St. Peter's to kingdom come, Langdon dashes from church to crypt to nave to catacomb, finding freshly killed cardinals and others about to be as he employs his unique expertise to hash out the Illuminati's insidious plan. Perhaps recognizing how static and talky "Da Vinci" was, Howard and lenser Salvatore Totino this time... (Variety)
"Angels & Demons" Tours Give Movie Life In Rome May 15, 2009
In the book, Langdon chases the camerlengo (played by Ewan McGregor in the film) through the subterranean passages to find the hidden canister of dangerous antimatter. In real life, the Vatican Excavations Office carefully controls the number of people allowed to walk through the Scavi. (W-USA News, DC)
Unoriginal sin May 15, 2009
The group has come out of hiding, having hired an assassin to kidnap and kill each of the four papal candidates (one per hour) until midnight (the chase gets underway at 6:53 p.m.), at which point a stolen canister containing less than a gram of antimatter will explode in the Basilica, destroying everything, killing everyone ... She's a "bio-entanglement physicist." So presumably when she's not working on developing antimatter, she's coming up with the most amazing shampoos ... "When you write... (Boston Globe)
The Truth About Angels, Demons and Antimatter May 15, 2009
Physicist Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) and symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) look upon an antimatter trap in the 2009 movie "Angels and Demons.". An antimatter explosion threatens to level the Vatican in the movie adaptation of the thriller "Angels and Demons," but real-world physicists are unfazed by this plot ... The story features "Da Vinci Code" hero Robert Langdon racing to recover an antimatter capsule stolen from the facility in Switzerland. (Fox News)
Real science takes a back seat in movie's plot May 15, 2009
Antimatter, the God particle, CERN's Large Hadron Collider and the enormous energy that particle-antiparticle annihilation would produce serve as golden plot nuggets in "Angels & Demons." ... The plot involves a theft of antimatter from CERN's Large Hadron Collider -- which accelerates particles at high speed, then collides them to produce particles never seen before ... The antimatter is hidden in Vatican City, leading to a countdown to annihilation that sets off a race through Rome to avert... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Analysis: Pope faced high bar on Israel trip May 15, 2009
Vatican City authorities try to track down an antimatter bomb in a scene from the movie "Angels and Demons.". Slide shows: Pope Benedict XVI. (MSNBC -- International)
It's Hard Out There for a Symbologist May 15, 2009
Two weeks after the sudden death of a "progressive pope" (there goes the movie's credibility right there), a canister containing deadly antimatter is stolen from a supercollider in Switzerland ... If nothing else, Angels & Demons proves that, as McGuffins go, a cylinder of antimatter is more fun than the Holy Grail. (Slate)
Holy Hanks! Fun and Games in Angels & Demons May 14, 2009
" A few years back, the Vatican, the seat of power for the Roman Catholic Church, had waxed apoplectic over The Da Vinci Code both the Dan Brown book and Ron Howard's 2006 movie version. According to the director, the Holy See blocked his attempts to shoot scenes of Angels, another Brown novel, in the Roman churches where much of it is set. So Howard must have found L'Osservatore Romano's genial review an unexpected blessing, somewhere between a celebratory puff of white smoke and the mild... (Time.com)
'Angels & Demons' May 14, 2009
But this time, someone has stolen a canister containing newly created antimatter and kidnapped the four cardinals most likely to be elected pope. A threat arrives: The cardinals will be branded and publicly executed, one each over the next four hours; then, an hour later, the antimatter will explode, taking the Vatican and a good-size chunk of surrounding Rome with it ... Meanwhile, Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), the scientist working on the antimatter project, is on hand to help prevent the... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Sanford Lab scientists take on 'Angels & Demons' May 13, 2009
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology and the Sanford Underground Laboratory will sponsor a lecture at the Elks Theatre, one in a series to tell the world about the real science of antimatter, the Large Hadron Collider and particle physics research ... In the new movie "Angels & Demons," part of the film focuses on an apparent plot to destroy the Vatican using antimatter made at the Large Hadron Collider and stolen from the European particle physics laboratory CERN.... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
"Trek" Devices Meet Reality May 11, 2009
The engines on the Enterprise are powered by antimatter fuel, an idea that is not so far-fetched today ... Antimatter has 100 times the power of a hydrogen bomb ... However, antimatter is very expensive -- each gram costs several trillion dollars to create. (CBS News -- Early Show)
White House orders review of NASA space plans May 10, 2009
That new flight will carry a scientific device that would be attached to the space station and search out unusual particles in the universe antimatter, dark matter and cosmic rays. The alpha magnetic spectrometer is already built, being tested, and costs $1. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Obama Puts Entire NASA Space Program in Limbo May 8, 2009
That new flight will carry a scientific device that would be attached to the space station and search out unusual particles in the universe antimatter, dark matter and cosmic rays. The review team will be headed by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. (Fox News)
Waiting to fly Apr 30, 2009
ST: If you had read the New York Times in, I don't know, 1962 or so, there was an article with the headline "Physicists Discover Antimatter in Complex Form" ... So, at the beginning, if you had an electron, you must also have had a positron (the antimatter counterpart of an electron) ... It always troubled me: where's the Universe made out of antimatter. (BBC News -- Science)
Antimatter scout to hitch last shuttle ride Apr 28, 2009
It's a particle detector designed to hunt for an antimatter universe ... "It always troubled me; where's the universe made out of antimatter? That was basically one of the reasons we proposed this experiment," he added ... "This is somewhat of a definitive experiment to see whether [an] antimatter universe really exists or not.". (MSNBC -- Technology)
iPhone iWannabes Apr 28, 2009
It's a particle detector designed to hunt for an antimatter universe. Multimedia. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Second Major Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Orders Zecoteks MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors Apr 28, 2009
LHC experiments will address questions such as what gives matter its mass, what the invisible 96% of the Universe is made of, why nature prefers matter to antimatter and how matter evolved from the first instants of the Universe's existence. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Signals could be from dark matter Apr 2, 2009
Pamela stands for: Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics The satellite carries instruments to identify particles and anti-particles It is expected to orbit the Earth for a minimum of three years. "It's like light; when you see different colours, you're looking at photons - light particles - with different energies.". (BBC News -- Science)
Has dark matters destruction been detected? Apr 2, 2009
An Italian satellite called PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light nuclei Astrophysics), to measure radiation in space, found an overabundance of particles called positrons, which are the antimatter counterpart to electrons ( annihilate each other) ... If dark matter is made up of neutralinos, then dark matter particles would be their own antimatter particles, because the anti-neutralino is simply a neutralino. (MSNBC -- Technology)
TV, films boldly go down scientific path Mar 28, 2009
Angels & Demons star Tom Hanks last month toured Europe's CERN atom-smashing facility, which also stars in the antimatter mystery movie premiering May 15. And a spate of other science-themed flicks arrives this year as well. (USA Today -- Tech)
Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter In The Natural World? Mar 28, 2009
Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter In The Natural World ... Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter In The Natural World ... This imbalance, called the CP violation, distinguishes matter from antimatter and is essential to understanding why matter predominates over antimatter in the natural world. (Science Daily)
Solar cells get energy from where? GCSE science put to the test Mar 28, 2009
Page last updated at 13:07 GMT, Friday, 27 March 2009. GCSE science concerns explained. (BBC News -- Science)
Symmetry math sheds new light on fundamental physics Mar 27, 2009
This imbalance, called the CP violation, distinguishes matter from antimatter and is essential to understanding why matter predominates over antimatter in the natural world ... The work will help guide future particle accelerator experiments, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It also provides clues about the physical mechanism which caused the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the Universe. (EurekAlert!)
I'm not looking, honest! Mar 11, 2009
In the 1990s a physicist called Lucien Hardy proposed a thought experiment that makes nonsense of the famous interaction between matter and antimatter that when a particle meets its antiparticle, the pair always annihilate one another in a burst of energy. Dr Hardy s scheme left open the possibility that in some cases when their interaction is not observed a particle and an antiparticle could interact with one another and survive. (The Economist)
1894: Local prophet forecast world’s end Mar 9, 2009
ClassWarrior wrote on Mar 9, 2009 2:22 AM:" Would the world's end be such a bad thing? Look at all the future misery and evil thus short-circuited...c'mon, Uncle Vladimir, launch them secret missiles you've got hidden under Yamantau Mountain (and Kosvinsky, and about 200 other secret sites).Then we'll have that peaceful "On The Beach" ending we've always wanted! ("On The Beach" -- Neville Shute, novel and movie, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck...humans annihilate themselves with global radiation... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Enigmo Gets Demo Mar 4, 2009
To learn more about Pangea Software or its six published titles Engimo, Cro-Mag Rally, Billy Frontier, Bugdom 2, Antimatter and Nanosaur 2: Hatchling please visit: www. pangeasoft. (IGN Wireless Games)
Low Red Land Feb 20, 2009
We would combine with them and become antimatter (and probably sound like Sting with fuzz bass). DeVito: Anybody but Ben and Neil. (San Francisco Chronicle)
An antimatter bomb?! Its just a movie Feb 13, 2009
Antimatter from CERN plays a part in the plot ... GENEVA - The European physics laboratory that reassured us it wouldnt destroy the earth in a "big bang" experiment last year is now telling people not to fret about antimatter ... Physicists at CERN are keen to separate fact from fiction in Hollywoods upcoming adaptation of the Dan Brown novel "Angels & Demons," in which a secret society tries to annihilate the Vatican with antimatter stolen from the lab on the Swiss-French border. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Big Theories> Feb 7, 2009
It may be the ultimate fuel for space travel, but right now antimatter is fleeting, difficult to. In this article we examine the use of antimatter and fusion to propel future spacecraft to the. (FirstScience.com)
